I tagged along with the Ohio Lepidopterists on a field trip to this part of the Wayne National Forest near Nelsonville, and the contrast with Columbus couldn't have been more stark. We hiked through a mix of ridges and valleys in the NE section of the Wayne National Forest, sharing the trail with quite a few ATVs. Despite this, many neotropical migrants are already on territory here, and a 2 hour hike produced a good list, including Red-shouldered & Red-tailed Hawks Chimney Swifts Tree & Barn Swallows Yellow-thr.Vireos (3-4 singing) Wood Thrushes (2-3) Brown Thrasher Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Black-thr,Greens - 2 Black&White Warblers (8-9 singing) Yellow-rumped Warblers - 15+ AmerRedstarts - 2 Ovenbirds - 8+ singing La Waterthrush Hooded Warblers - 5+ Scarlet Tanager - 2 singing Butterflies weren't bad either, after the sun started beating back the clouds (around 11:30), with a list that included Falcate Orange-tip, 3 swallowtails (Tiger, Spicebush, Zebra), Henry's Elfin, Spring Azure, E.Tailed Blue, Silvery Blue, Red-banded Hairstreak, Pearl Crescent, Amer.Painted Lady, American Comma, MourningCloak, Gemmed Satyr, Carolina Satyr, Juvenal's Duskywing, and Sleepy Duskywing ______________________________________________________________________ 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]