As my first year of birding draws to a close, I realize that I sucked at birding for the first three months. In July, I thought a Blue Jay in my backyard was a Great Crested Flycatcher. Anyways, my list is short because I don't get to go birding too often. Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall Mallard Redhead Hooded Merganser Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker* Pileated Woodpecker Peregrine Falcon Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nutatch Brown Creeper* Barn Swallow Carolina Wren House Wren* Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Black-throated Blue Warbler Chipping Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown Headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole House Finch Purple Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow (Sorry about not reporting the Golden Eagle, I wasn't on the listserv then.) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]