Every other year I do a music-birdsong unit with my 7th and 8th graders at Central Christian School in Kidron, culminating with small group excursions into our school woods. I assign arbitrary points for birds heard, birds seen, and a bonus point for birds identified by a student. Here's what we saw or heard this week: Black-capped chickadeeChipping sparrowHouse wrenMourning doveNorthern flickerSong sparrowNorthern cardinalTufted titmouseWhite-breasted nuthatchWhite-throated sparrowWood thrushYellow warblerAmerican robinNorthern rough-winged swallowMallardAmerican goldfinchAmerican crowBarn swallowBrown-headed cowbirdCanada gooseCommon grackleEuropean starlingGray catbirdHouse sparrowHouse finchKilldeerNashville warblerRed-bellied woodpeckerRed-headed woodpeckerRock pigeonRose-breasted grosbeakBlackburnian warblerMagnolia warblerTennessee warblerYellow-rumped warblerEastern kingbirdTree swallowBaltimore orioleAmerican kestrel Tim Shue; Kidron ______________________________________________________________________ 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]