One of the rufous phase eastern screech owls has returned to roost in the steel girders supporting the pedestrian bridge on the Alum Creek biketrail in Westerville. It could be that the other one was there and I just overlooked it. The cavity farther up the trail near Otterbein Lake was still empty when I passed it at half past noon today. Also at Otterbein Lake were two pied-billed grebes, a belted kingfisher, a great blue herons, and six turtles (common map I think) sunning on a log. An American kestrel was perched on a nearby wire. Down Cleveland Ave. at Sharon Woods there were many white-crowned and white-throated sparrows as well as song sparrows and field sparrows. 4 hermit thrushes and 2 Swainson's thrushes also put in an appearance. I had my first-of-season brown creeper and heard a red-breasted nuthatch. The most abundant birds were yellow-rumed warblers and, of course, American robins. 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]