We stayed closer to home for an outing today and along the way found 3 new birds for our Ohio 2015 list: Black Vulture -- Mohican SP--Covered Bridge Cerulean Warbler -- Mohican SP--Covered Bridge Eurasian Collared-Dove -- Perrysville Union Cemetery This is the first time we have seen Eurasian Collared-Doves in Ohio! The day got off to an interesting start as our male Ruby-throated Hummingbird was guarding the bird spa in our back yard. A Chipping Sparrow came in for a bath and the hummer chased the sparrow away with quite an aerobatic display all the while flashing his red throat. We saw a female hummingbird at the feeder yesterday. Seems that this male is claiming our house, feeders, and bird spa as his territory. Full list of what we saw today for those interested: Number of Checklists: 5 Number of Species: 49 Checklists included in this summary: (1): Westfield Center--Leroy Rd. Date: May 9, 2015, 6:53 AM (2): Perrysville Union Cemetery Date: May 9, 2015, 8:44 AM (3): Mohican SP--Covered Bridge Date: May 9, 2015, 9:02 AM (4): Mohican State Forest--Memorial Shrine Date: May 9, 2015, 12:29 PM (5): Mohican SP--Gorge Overlook Date: May 9, 2015, 12:50 PM 1 Wood Duck -- (3) 1 Mallard -- (3) 5 Black Vulture -- (3) 4 Turkey Vulture -- (3) 1 Killdeer -- (1) 1 Solitary Sandpiper -- (3) 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove -- (2) 2 Mourning Dove -- (1),(2) 1 Barred Owl -- (3) 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird -- (1),(3) 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker -- (3),(4) 7 Acadian Flycatcher -- (3) 2 Eastern Phoebe -- (1),(3) 69 Red-eyed Vireo -- (1),(3),(4),(5) 1 Blue Jay -- (1) 5 American Crow -- (1),(3),(5) 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- (3) 1 Tree Swallow -- (4) 6 Tufted Titmouse -- (1),(3) 1 White-breasted Nuthatch -- (3) 3 House Wren -- (1),(2),(4) 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- (3) 5 Veery -- (3),(5) 2 Swainson's Thrush -- (3) 8 Wood Thrush -- (3) 14 American Robin -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5) 8 Gray Catbird -- (3) 12 European Starling -- (2),(4) 6 Ovenbird -- (3),(4),(5) 3 Louisiana Waterthrush -- (3) 1 Black-and-white Warbler -- (3) 1 Common Yellowthroat -- (4) 9 Hooded Warbler -- (3),(5) 2 American Redstart -- (3) 1 Cerulean Warbler -- (3) 2 Northern Parula -- (3) 4 Yellow Warbler -- (3) 7 Black-throated Green Warbler -- (3),(5) 14 Chipping Sparrow -- (1),(2),(3),(4) 3 Song Sparrow -- (1),(3) 3 Scarlet Tanager -- (3) 8 Northern Cardinal -- (1),(2),(3) 9 Rose-breasted Grosbeak -- (3) 2 Indigo Bunting -- (3) 2 Common Grackle -- (2) 3 Brown-headed Cowbird -- (3) 2 Baltimore Oriole -- (3) 2 House Finch -- (1) 2 American Goldfinch -- (3) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]