I thought I would share the results of my "Big Summit County Day" from yesterday. I was inspired by a two hour bike ride in which I had 60 species in the Cuy. Valley. So I wondered how many I could find with my knowledge of other species elsewhere in the county. Jon Cefus helped immensely with the first 70 at Ira rd & Station rd...thanks Jon! I then went to 9 other spots including: Bath Nature Pres., Kendall Ledges, Armington pond, Summit Lk, & Springfield Bog. I targeted a possible 100 species and over 12 hours found 87 expected species. ..but there were some surprises. The unexpected one was a Coot at Indigo Lk! The most shocking and perhaps good news is that I found no Canada geese till Summit Lk in the evening! Same today I had no geese in the valley! The saddest surprise was no Henslow at Armington pond -as they finished mowing the field. I did talk to someone who said there were invasive plants there. The best birds were singing Winter Wren & Bobwhite (even if they were reintroduced). I did have 11 warblers and 3 unidentified birds I just haven't learned their songs yet. Today I had the Rose Breasted Grosbeak I missed along with the Louisiana Water thrush the Monday group found...almost 90! Anyway it was great fun and we have great birding in our neck of the woods! Blessings Sandra ______________________________________________________________________ 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]