Today's Mountwood Bird Club outing to Newell's Run for Birds and Wildflowers was attended by Sandy Albrecht, Nancy Cornes, Diane Sanders, Lucine Wright, Susan and Tim Moellendick, Pat Collins and I. There were several First Of Year birds for me. Highlights: asterisks "*" indicate birds of particular interest to me. Wood Duck Red-breasted Merganser *Common Loon - FOY - quarry south of WI L&D Green Heron Osprey Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Killdeer **Willet - FOY - 8 at Newell's Run Spotted Sandpiper - FOY Ring-billed Gull *Black-billed Cuckoo - FOY - 2 Eastern Phoebe *Least Flycatcher - FOY Eastern Kingbird - FOY White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo - FOY *Philadelphia Vireo - FOY Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow - FOY Barn Swallow Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-winged Warbler - 5 Yellow Warbler - 3+ Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 American Redstart - 5+ Worm-eating Warbler - 5+ Ovenbird - 20+ Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 6 Hooded Warbler - 5 Scarlet Tanager **Blue Grosbeak -2 - at the quarry below WI L&D Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Other birds: Canada Goose Mallard Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodepcker Downy Woodpecker Northern Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling 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 81 species and I probably missed a couple. Jon Benedetti Vienna, WV [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]