I pulled into Jaite Wayside on Wednesday morning with my passenger window open. There were four palm warblers in the bushes right outside my window. (My camera was packed in a bag.) I walked north along the railroad tracks and saw more palm warblers and some yellow-rumped warblers. I also saw five pileated woodpeckers in the marsh just north of the main/paved Jaite parking lot. I have never seen five of these big beautiful woodpeckers together like this. Could this have been a family group? They were chasing each other and pecking at dead trees. Three chimney swifts chased one of the woodpeckers away. (I have seen chimney swifts chase a Cooper's hawk at Wetmore trailhead parking lot a few weeks ago. Who knew they were so aggressive?) After about an hour I circled back to the yellow buildings near Snowville Road. I saw more palm and yellow-rumped warblers. I also saw some rusty blackbirds with some red-winged blackbirds. The rusties were about the size of the red-wings; but, they had a distinct eye ring and the colors of a grackle (without that long grackle tail). ______________________________________________________________________ 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]