I spent the morning hiking around several of the trails in the wooded north end of Alum Creek reservoir. The wooded ravines along the shoreline from St 37 north are one of the few tracts of woods large enough in central Ohio to hold rarer forest species. I specifically hiked the Maple Hollow and Hunter's Hollow Trails, which face each other across the Howard Rd bridge. The list for 2 hours of hiking: Turkey Vultures Red-shouldered Hawk (calling in Maple Hollow) Barred Owl (calling in Hunter's Hollow) Mourning Doves Yellow-billed Cuckoos (1 singing along each trail) Ruby-thr.Hummingbirds Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpeckers Downy Woodpeckers Hairy Woodpeckers Yellow-shafted Flicker Pileated Woodpeckers (1 on MH, 2 on HH) E.Wood Pewees Acadian Flycatchers (16 on MH, 12 on HH; they love the ravines here) Willow Flycatcher - 1 calling in marsh near bridge E.Phoebe Great Crssted Flycatchers E. Kingbirds (around bridge) Rough-winged Swallows Yellow-thr.Vireos (2 on MH, 1 on HH) White-eyed Vireo (1 singing in marsh near bridge) Red-eyed Vireos (10 on MH, 8 on HH) Blue Jays American Crows (feeding begging juvenile) Carolina Chickadees Tufted Titmice White-br. Nuthatches Wood Thrushes American Robins Gray Catbirds Euro Starlings Cedar Waxwings Yellow Warblers (pair with fledgling, in marsh near bridge) Parula Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Cerulean Warbler (1 singing along MH) Ovenbird (1 singing along HH) La. Waterthrushes (calling birds along each trail) Kentucky Warbler (singing along HH) Hooded Warblers (3 singing along HH) Common Yellowthroats Scarlet Tanagers Indigo Buntings Chipping Sparrows Field Sparrows (in meadow next to boat launch near bridge) Song Sparrows Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackles Brown-headed Cowbirds Baltimore Orioles House Finches American Goldfinches House Sparrows Expected but missed: Cooper's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Wild Turkey, Warbling Vireo, American Redstart, Black&White Warbler, Summer Tanager, Rose-br.Grosbeak ______________________________________________________________________ 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]