Today I hosted Logan Kahle of San Francisco for the third time. Logan is an enthusiastic 16 year-old with a passion for birding. We had a terrific day with numerous great finds from early morning until we finished up in the late afternoon. Logan had his camera and the birds seem to have their passion to pose for pictures to the point of seeming like hams. Considering it rained on us as we drove to our starting location, I wasn’t sure that we wouldn’t be skunked this time out. It wasn’t to be as the final tally for the day was 109 species. We began the day at Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve in Licking County. Highlights included up close views of Yellow-breasted Chats, Prairie Warblers, Blue-winged Warblers, Scarlet Tanagers, Summer Tanagers among others. .After giving Blackhand good coverage we continued at Blendon woods Metro Park in Franklin County adding additional warblers. The activity was slow but steady as we worked the Pond Trail, Brookside Trail, Overlook Trail and Hickory Ridge Trail. Next we headed to my home grounds, the Hoover Nature Preserve. There Logan was treated to a show by a male Prothonotary Warbler that apparently wanted a career in modeling as he posed, posed and posed some more. This bird knew how to work the camera. We checked the boardwalk at Area M where there were Ring-billed and Herring Gulls, plus Caspian, Forester and Common Terns, and the day’s surprise, a Glaucous Gull. Logan’s camera got a workout. Our final area of coverage was along Longshore Road in Delaware County where we checked out flooded farm fields. This paid off with a field of Black-bellied Plovers, Long-billed Dowitchers, Short-billed Dowitchers and a lone Killdeer. My old bones feeling their age, we called it a day. A fun day spent with a special and talented young man. Our list follows. Charlie Bombaci, for Logan and myself SPECIES LIST 1. Common Loon 2. Double-crested Cormorant 3. Great Blue Heron 4. Green Heron 5. Turkey Vulture 6. Canada Goose 7. Wood Duck 8. Mallard 9. Osprey 10. Sharp-shinned Hawk 11. Cooper's Hawk 12. Broad-winged Hawk 13. Red-tailed Hawk 14. American Kestrel 15. Wild Turkey 16. Black-bellied Plover 17. Killdeer 18. Short-billed Dowitcher 19. Long-billed Dowitcher 20. Bonaparte's Gull 21. Ring-billed Gull 22. Herring Gull 23. Glaucous Gull 24. Caspian Tern 25. Common tern 26. Forster’s Tern 27. Rock Pigeon 28. Mourning Dove 29. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 30. Chimney Swift 31. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 32. Belted Kingfisher 33. Red-bellied Woodpecker 34. Downy Woodpecker 35. Northern Flicker 36. Pileated Woodpecker 37. Eastern Wood-Pewee 38. Acadian Flycatcher 39. Least Flycatcher 40. Eastern Phoebe 41. Great Crested Flycatcher 42. Eastern Kingbird 43. White-eyed Vireo 44. Blue-headed Vireo 45. Warbling Vireo 46. Red-eyed Vireo 47. Blue Jay 48. American Crow 49. Purple Martin 50. Tree Swallow 51. Northern Rough-winged Swallow 52. Cliff Swallow 53. Barn Swallow 54. Carolina Chickadee 55. Tufted Titmouse 56. White-breasted Nuthatch 57. Carolina Wren 58. House Wren 59. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 60. Eastern Bluebird 61. Veery 62. Grey-checked Thrush 63. Swainson’s Thrush 64. Wood Thrush 65. American Robin 66. Gray Catbird 67. Northern Mockingbird 68. Brown Thrasher 69. European Starling 70. Cedar Waxwing 71. Blue-winged Warbler 72. Tennessee Warbler 73. Northern Parula 74. Chestnut-sided Warbler 75. Magnolia Warbler 76. Cape May Warbler 77. Yellow-rumped Warbler 78. Black-throated Green Warbler 79. Blackburnian Warbler 80. Yellow-throated Warbler 81. Prairie Warbler 82. Cerulean Warbler 83. Black-and-White Warbler 84. American Redstart 85. Prothonotary Warbler 86. Ovenbird 87. Louisiana Waterthrush 88. Kentucky Warbler 89. Common Yellowthroat 90. Hooded Warbler 91. Wilson’s Warbler 92. Canada Warbler 93. Yellow-breasted Chat 94. Summer Tanager 95. Scarlet Tanager 96. Eastern Towhee 97. Chipping Sparrow 98. Field Sparrow 99. Song Sparrow 100. White-crowned Sparrow 101. Northern Cardinal 102. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 103. Indigo Bunting 104. Red-winged Blackbird 105. Common Grackle 106. Brown-headed Cowbird 107. Baltimore Oriole 108. American Goldfinch 109. House Sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]