Decent day at Lawrence Woods SNP. Birds were in good quantities singing over top of one another with areas of silence to help collect thoughts. :-) Them French-Canadian Flycatchers (Acadian) are back and are scattered through the woods. Cerulean Warblers are between 3 and 4. Geese were absent today with only a couple flybys. Looks like the Protonotary Warbler is picking nesting sites...looks like one may be the box in the pond on the left. It is also looking for natural cavities on the right as you enter, and across the pond on the left. Hopefully a female hears his pleas soon. Bobolinks are in the field singing every once and a while. Common Yellowthroats are all around the parking lot...and I saw one at the pond. Weirdest bird of the day was a Killdeer flyby. Mosquito population is minimal at the moment with only two flybys. Look for increasing traffic as we go into June. :-D Lists for prairie and boardwalk below. Happy birding and God bless. Steve J. Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve--Prairie Path, Hardin, Ohio, US May 22, 2016 2:35 PM - 3:15 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: <br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.2.0-beta3 7 species Ring-necked Pheasant 3 Common Yellowthroat 6 Field Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 4 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 25 Eastern Meadowlark 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29845352 Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve--Woods Boardwalk, Hardin, Ohio, US May 22, 2016 2:50 PM - 7:02 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.25 mile(s) Comments: <br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.2.0-beta3 41 species Canada Goose 2 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Killdeer 1 Barred Owl 4 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Acadian Flycatcher 8 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 House Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 2 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 4 Brown Thrasher 1 Ovenbird 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 American Redstart 2 Cerulean Warbler 2 Northern Parula 2 Field Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 4 Eastern Towhee 3 Scarlet Tanager 3 2 M 1 F Northern Cardinal 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29845334 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]