Darke County Birders had a trip to Mercer Co. On Aug. 7, 2016. This is the list from around Mount Mercer the local trash dump. We found the Blue Grosbeaks on Clover 4 road in the wildlife preserve area. You can't enter, but can bird easily from the road. Mount Mercer 127 and Clover 4 Rd., Mercer, Ohio, US Aug 7, 2016 9:00 AM - 9:25 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) 28 species Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 4 Turkey Vulture 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 3 Ring-billed Gull 8 Herring Gull 2 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2 Mourning Dove 8 Northern Flicker 1 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Kingbird 20 on wires and fence along road. at least 4 pairs with young. Tree Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 4 Cliff Swallow 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 6 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 2 Perched on small trees near road. Large bluish beak with some light blue on head. Probably female and immature Indigo Bunting 8 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 6 House Sparrow 12 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31030246 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]