Zaleski State Forest & Lake Hope State Park is located 14 miles west of Nelsonville(Rte 33) off of Rte 278. I visited this area Tues(May 22nd). Below is a list of some of the birds seen & places visited. King Hollow Rd-Maintenance Rd(No Vehicles) 6:59am Warblers Magnolia Ovenbird-4 Hooded-4 Worm-eating-2 Black-and-white American Redstart-2 Wood Thrush E Wood Peewee Scarlet Tanager-2 Red-eyed Vireo Shelter Woods 6:18am Warblers Kentucky Hooded-5 American Redstart-2 Yellow-breasted Chat-3 Chestnut-sided Nashville Prairie Blue-winged Bay-breasted Vireos Yellow-throated White-eyed Red-eyed Wood Thrush Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Baltimore Oriole Clear Cut 7:32am Warbler Prairie-2 C Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat-3 Blue-winged Indigo Bunting Yellow-billed Cuckoo E Towhee Campground Rd/ Rte 278 N Parula Backpack Parking Lot/ Rte 278 Warblers Yellow-throated C Yellowthroat Hooded American Redstart Yellow N rough-winged Swallow Rte 278 Palm Warbler N Flicker Hope Furnace 9:00am Warblers Yellow C Yellowthroat Great Crested Flycatcher Wheelabout Rd/ bridge 9: 04am American Redstart Pileated Wodpecker Prothonotary Warbler-9:12am Lake Schoolhouse 9:07am Warblers Yellow C Yellowthroat Prairie Yellow-throated Chat E Bluebird-female Great Blue heron Shea Rd 9:20am Warblers Cerulean Yellow-breasted Chat Ovenbird N Parula Shea/ Hopemoonville Rd 9:28am E Phoebe Shea Rd/barn 9:48am Warblers C Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Brown Thrasher Atkinson Ridge Rd 9:50am Red-shouldered Hawk Hunter's Camp 9:56am Pine Warbler-2 Baptist Church Rd 10:11am ( All the birds at the Shelter Woods & Clear Cut on King Hollow Rd are here in a Clear Cut & Shelter Woods-you can drive up to this area & view birds from a vehicle Warblers Prairie Kentucky White-eyed Vireo Baptist Church Rd 4:36pm Warblers Prairie-5 Hooded Pine C Yelowthroat Yelow-throated Blue-winged Yellow-breasted Chat-2 White-eyed Vireo Pileated Woodpecker Cedar Waxwing-5+ Will Tract- 60 yards from fiber optic line 10:41am Wood Thrush American Redstart Will Tract/Raccoon Creek 10:52am Cerulean-2 Chimney Swifts-3 Cedar Waxwing-5+ Raccoon Rd/vernal pool 11:13am Warbling Vireo E Bluebird-male E Raccoon Rd-little meadow along road 11:19am Warblers Cerulean C Yellowthroat E Raccoon Rd 11:27am-walked downstream-app 1 mile Warblers Cerulean-5 Ovenbird-8 C Yellowthroat Kentucky-2 Louisianna waterthrush Worm-eating N Parula Hooded-2 Scarlet Tanager Pileated Woodpecker Red-shouldered Hawk E Raccoon Rd-walked upsteam-app 1/2 mile 12:31pm Warblers Yellow-throated Ovenbird Cerulean American Redstart-2 Hooded N Parula Worm-eating Yelow-billed Cuckoo E Raccoon Rd-ridge 12:58pm Black-and-white Warbler E Raccoon Rd-ridge 3:00pm-100 yards from Atkinson Ridge Rd Warblers Cerulean Ovenbird Hooded Kentucky-base small slope Carolina Wren Hunter's Camp Rd/State Forest 13:47pm Warblers Pine Ovenbird Hooded Black-throated Green King Hollow Rd-Maintenance Rd(NO Vehicles) 3:50pm Warblers American Redstart Ovenbird Yellow-breasted Chat Hooded Big Four/bridge-walk upstream-app 1/2 mile 4:15pm Warblers Black-and-white Ovenbird-3 American Redstart Kentucky-2 Big Four-downstream-app 1/3 mile 4:28pm Black-and-white Big Four-base of hill 4:40pm Warblers Yellow-throated American Redstart Ovenbird Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park in Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]