Here's a so-so recording I got of the Connecticut Warbler at Blendon this morning around 10am. It (and the rest of the birds in the area) were a bit more cooperative shortly after I made this recording, however I was out of storage space and had to settle for standing and just listening to the bird (the last of the eastern warblers for me!) https://soundcloud.com/paul-j-hurtado/connecticut-warbler-27-may-2014 It sounds like it hasn't been observed this afternoon, so hopefully it sings a bit more today and/or stays around tonight to fuel up for one more day before flying north. Good birding, -Paul Hurtado On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Doreene Linzell <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > This morning we first heard and then saw, briefly, a Connecticut Warbler. > Blendon Woods is one of the Metro Parks in Central Ohio. We arrived at the > park about 6:15 and had to wait for the gate to open. We drove slowly > through the woods (watching the turkeys scuttle off the road) and parked by > the nature center. We first walked around the small triangle of woods in > front of the nature center. We then left the parking lot on the Hickory > Ridge trail (which is not signposted at this point). This trail kind of > parallels the road to the nature center. Any way, we had not walked very > far before we heard the COWA singing on the left hand side. I put an 18 > inch thickish stick on the path where we first heard the bird. We walked on > a bit further and then it sounded like another one on the right (between us > and the road). In reality there was only one bird as Dan actually saw it > fly back to the left side of the trail. We then came to the Brookside Trail > and we turned left. Shortly after that Dan actually got to see the bird for > a brief look, but enough of a look for a visual confirmation of what we had > been hearing. I put a four foot scrawny branch on the path where the bird > was seen on the left. The bird sang between 6:45 and 7:05. > > Doreene Linzell > Dan Sanders > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > -- Paul J. Hurtado Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/ Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/ E-mail: [log in to unmask] Webpage: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10 ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]