The Warblers are coming! The Warblers are coming! Last evening I had Yellow-rumps all over the trees just past the hunting blind in the last of the three ponds. Also got a typical view of a Virginia Rail (bill and butt :-D )...and heard the "Onk-a-chunk" an American Bittern in the same location...could never locate him though. Still getting some ducks passing through as well. List below: Big Island Wildlife Area--North of Larue-Prospect Rd. Apr 19, 2016 5:32 PM Traveling 0.50 miles 93 minutes All birds reported? Yes 34 Species 100 Canada Goose 2 Trumpeter Swan 45 Wood Duck 50 Mallard 125 Blue-winged Teal 25 Northern Shoveler 48 Northern Pintail 2 Hooded Merganser 12 Pied-billed Grebe 1 American Bittern -- Heard calling at hunting blind. 15 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 8 Turkey Vulture 3 Bald Eagle 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Virginia Rail 2 Common Gallinule 100 American Coot 2 Killdeer 30 Ring-billed Gull 4 Mourning Dove 2 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 100 Tree Swallow 3 Marsh Wren 8 American Robin 12 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 200 Red-winged Blackbird 10 Rusty Blackbird 25 Common Grackle ______________________________________________________________________ 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]