Took a lazy afternoon walk at Morgan Swamp yesterday. Another friendly birder there reported a Scarlet Tanager and a cooperative Hooded Warbler seen right by the platform. When I got there (the path is pretty short), I heard 2 hooded farther off in the woods and got close-up looks at pair of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. Some of the best birding is right by the parking lot in an overgrown orchard. On Friday it contained a Least Flycatcher, Common Yellowthroats, and Field Sparrows. Here's my eBird checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10721392 Sunny afternoons aren't the greatest for birding but there are plenty of butterflies and dragonflies around. I saw Red Admiral, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, Question Mark, and a mosiac darner dragonfly. Other birds which can be expected at Morgan Swamp: Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Black-billed Cuckoo woodpeckers flycatchers Blue-winged Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole If you do head out here in the boondocks and are looking for birdy areas, there are several parking areas along the Western Reserve Greenway, a paved bike path that runs from Ashtabula to Orwell and beyond. It's an old railroad bed. If you park at Eagleville-- there's a parking lot for the Greenway on Jefferson-Eagleville Road, off Route 45 north of Rock Creek-- and travel north, the trail goes through some choice habitats and crosses Mill Creek. Everything from warblers to kingfishers in a short distance. http://www.ashtabulacountymetroparks.org/trail.htm Sean Artman Rock Creek, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]