Greetings to all birders, 9/27/13 Blendon Woods, 18 species of warblers, includ. superior numbers for the three most common species Tennessee, Cape May and Bay-breasted (todays numbers comparable to their peak in the northern Central Altantic states i.e. MD, NJ, etc., during the 1970's, especially the years 1974 - 1981 in response to spruce budworm peak outbreaks) and several times 5 or 6 Bay-breasteds were in view at one time, many being well marked colorful ad. m. non breeding. We spent three hours, having arrived just after 7 a.m., staying along the cut over forest edge, and the service road the parrallels it watching warblers emerge from the forest, cross the cut over blaze and fly into the narrow tree line of mature open deciduous tress, mixed with a few spruce.and hemlocks forming a thin open tree edge to the service rd. on the cut over side; deep mature deciduous forest, moderate to heavy understory/windfalls and closed canopy, entended away on the opposite site of the Service Rd. Most warblers came down from canopy to about mid level as time went by. The conifers were popular trees. One Hooded Warbler was note worthy in that it was a male. The first Yellow rumped 'Myrtle' Warbler I've seen this fall, arrived alone and quickly moved off. Birds seen at the service rd./cut over area of the Nature Center parkinglot: Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Red headed Woodpecker 2 imm. flybys Downy Woodpecker 15 Hairy Woodpecker 10 N. 'yellow shafted' Flicker 8 Eastern Wood pewee 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 3 Carolina Chickadee 23 Tufted Titmouse 18 White breasted Nuthatch 22 Carolina Wren 10 Ruby crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 43 Gray cheeked Thrush 5 Swainson's Thrush 12 American Robin 200 Cedar Waxwing 80 Tennessee Warbler 33 Nashville Warbler 24 Nothern Parula 7 Chestnut sided Warbler 9 Cape May Warbler 36 Magnolia Warbler 12 Myrtle Warbler 1 Black throated Blue Warbler 8 Black throated Green Warbler 12 Pine Warbler 3 (as is the case mostly this fall, these (singles) were foraging in Deciduous trees) Bay breasted Warbler 44 Blackpoll 3 BlackandWhite 9 American Redstart 15 Ovenbird 6 Common Yellowthroat 4 Hooded Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 7 Scarlet Tanager 6 Northern Cardinal 11 Rose breasted Grosbeak 8 Indigo Bunting 4 Baltimore Oriole 8 American Goldfinch 22 Another front is expected Sunday! Back to BDC, probably Teal/Harrier wetlands, tomorrow. Good birding, Patty and David Tan -- David Tan Columbus [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]