TodayLinda and I birded along the multipurpose trail that runs from Casto Park inWesterville, south to Parkridge Park in Columbus. The trail runs beside AlumCreek and has good cover for the birds most of its length. Last December whileworking this area for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count we had a nice variety ofspecies including a very cooperative Barred Owl. Today there was activity allalong the trail including a nice group of warblers. As usual Yellow-rumps werethe most common with flurries as thick as gnats at times. We observed 3extremely cooperative Blue-winged Warblers. In the large sycamore trees wefound numerous Northern Parula’s and Yellow-throated Warblers, but best was thepair of Red-shouldered Hawks constructing a nest. As we were returning to thecar at Casto Park we ran into a Semi-palmated Plover hanging around with 3Killdeer. A list of the species observed along the trail follows. CharlieBombaci Species Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin European Starling Blue-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-White Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch 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]