Well, it pays to take a (long) walk in the rain. :) The bike trail continues to produce great birds and memorable experiences. *Notes:* overcast, drizzly rain (I birded under the cover of the umbrella for about an hour) walked 5 miles (2.5 miles one way then back) 4.25 hours 49 species total (48 on the trail, one additional in my yard) *Highlights include:* Barn Swallow - 2 House Wren - 7 (all singing, they love the brush piles left from logging) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10 (all very vocal) Veery - 4 Hermit Thrush - 1 Wood Thrush - 5 Gray Catbird - 6 Brown Thrasher - 1 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Blue-winged Warbler - 3 (one with the Golden-winged Warbler, one ~200 feet away from that one, and one about 3/4 mile south of them)) Golden-winged Warbler* - 1 (see notes below) Yellow Warbler - 12 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (singing in a logged area where I've had them for several years) American Redstart - 2 males Ovenbird - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 7 (all singing) Eastern Towhee - 15 Chipping Sparrow - numerous Field Sparrow - 3 (all singing) Fox Sparrow - 1 (singing) Song Sparrow - abundant, seemed to be singing everywhere Swamp Sparrow - 4 (one pair and two singles) White-throated Sparrow - 42 (I was surrounded by one flock of 28 while they were singing and flying about - incredible!) Northern Oriole - 1 *The Golden-winged Warbler was in a mixed flock with one Blue-winged Warbler, two Yellow Warblers, and two American Redstarts. All were singing and moving around a lot, actively feeding in the tree tops and in the shrubs right next to the trail. I watched them for 25 minutes. When I arrived home, a Northern Oriole was singing across the street and an Eastern Phoebe was in my yard. Still smiling, Judy Hochadel ______________________________________________________________________ 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]