Greetings! I played hooky from work...(which I'm glad I did cause I had a flat tire half way to Upper Sandusky.) I would say that I started birding at Killdeer Plains...but the shorebird birding was dismal. So I started birding for the day up at Upper (Sandusky) getting the Western Tanager. :-D The owner of the house came out a talked with us for a while and as if on cue, it just appeared right in front of our eyes. She had some pretty good yard birds all together. Her yard count list I made is a high count feeder watch. I then piddled around Killdeer Plains Pond 30 for a bit with Ron Sempier and John Games. Then headed over to Lawrence Woods for some quiet weekday birding...and as I was leaving, I got point blank 15 feet away Magee Marsh-esque views of a pair of Scarlet Tanagers...at one point, one flew right in front of me, so close I could reach out and grab it. :-D Somehow I missed Greg Miller and his crew coming in, but they eventually passed me as we were making my way out..I go reeeealy slow when I go through those woods. :-D they got the Boblinks I reported last time, and I got the Veery they found today...win/win. :-D I had 75 species for the day when I left Lawrence Woods and added 5 more by the time I got home...nice day all around. :-D Lists of the majors below. Happy birding and God bless! Steve J. US-Ohio-Upper Sandusky-Wyandot, Ohio, US May 3, 2016 8:40 AM - 11:20 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: <br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.0.4 21 species Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Mourning Dove 6 Chimney Swift 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 4 Carolina Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 American Robin 4 European Starling 3 Chipping Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 4 Western Tanager 1 Continuing bird. Reddish/orange head, yellow body, black wings with yellow wing bars. Northern Cardinal 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 5 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29376976 Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve--Woods Boardwalk, Hardin, Ohio, US May 3, 2016 2:15 PM - 5:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Comments: <br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.0.4 61 species Canada Goose 5 Wood Duck 2 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Turkey Vulture 12 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 2 Barred Owl 1 Chimney Swift 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 3 Purple Martin 4 Tree Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 13 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 Veery 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 Hermit Thrush 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 3 Nashville Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Northern Parula 6 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 2 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Field Sparrow 5 White-crowned Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 23 Song Sparrow 10 Eastern Towhee 5 Scarlet Tanager 4 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4 Bobolink 4 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Eastern Meadowlark 4 Rusty Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 6 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29384229 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]