I've been enjoying White Throated Sparrow's song and watching them at the feeder, lately feeling a litle sad because I knew the day was coming soon I wouldn't hear them anymore. When they leave I'm down to just pretty much zillions of House Sparrows, a couple Cardinals and Blue Jays. Sitting outside yesterday I still had a couple. This morning (3 May) I'm not hearing any. I did a little birding of a local patch yesterday. Heard more than I saw but I'm not good at voice ID. In addition to the acrobatic Goldfinches, anxious looking Bluebirds, intense RWWB's etc. I saw 2 Palm Warblers and 1 Yellow Warbler. Orchard Oriole. Several Vireo's of unk type including one bird that I thought looked like a big baby Vireo. Is that possible? 1 Greenback Heron. I watched a Pied bill Grebe struggle with a fish too large for it to eat. On once side of the marshy pond in all the willow sticks I saw 2 male Wood ducks with a female. 45 min later on the other side I saw tiny 3 ducklings hard up by the edge of the pond all by themselves, no adults anywhere. Usually there are more and they are with a mother. Not sure what happened but hope they connect with a female. Marie, Dayton area Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 15:13:48 -0700 From: Dillon Nott <[log in to unmask]> Subject: WC Sparrow Still seeing 2 WhiteCrowned Sparrows at grandmas feeders. Shouldn't they be long gone? *************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________ 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]