Visited Batelle Darby on Monday and Wednesday Virginia rail Sora (heard) (also saw at Glacier Ridge Wetlands) American Bittern (heard) pheasant (heard) grasshopper sparrow Henslow's sparrow savannah sparrow Wilson's snipe greater yellowlegs lesser yellowlegs eastern meadowlark horned grebe gadwall northern shoveler blue winged teal coot bufflehead purple martin Other interesting critters Mink ... swimming across the Darby creek, then scampering along the roots on the shore Red squirrel hummingbird moth Upland sandpiper and horned lark (at Bolton Field) Blendon Woods Metro park (April 23) Pine warbler Palm warbler Nashville warbler ... displaying rusty head patch Black throated green warbler yellow rumped warbler Bob McNulty ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]