Sorry for the late post. I was so exhausted when I got home yesterday that it was all I could do to scrounge dinner for myself. My first stop of the day yesterday was Lazelle Woods where I checked boxes and then did some birding. The best bird there was my first of season blue gray gnatcatcher. After reading postings about them in other parts of the state, I was beginning to worry that they'd never come to Columbus. The next stop was the Alum Creek bike trail in Westerville where I saw my first of season yellow-throated warbler. Yellow-Rumped Warblers and White- Throated Sparrows abouned. As usual, there were a lot of Eastern Bluebirds flying around at that location. Since I was in the neighborhood, I decided to stop at Sharon Woods and see if the Common Loon was still on Schrock Lake. It was but it stayed far from shore making photo-ops and good looks impossible. I was somewhat disappointed so I went to Antrim Lake where I expected to see at least one loon. I arrived at Antrim Lake shortly after noon and immediately saw four Common Loons. I even got to watch one of them take off. It was fun watching him run across the surface of the water. A walk around the lake turned up two more Commom Loons, three Lesser Scaup, and a Horned Grebe in non breeding plumage. By the time I left around 3:30, there were still five loons on the Lake. I went back there today after work but only two loons remain. The scaup were still there but the grebe was nowhere to be seen. Al La Sala Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]