Greetings! Well,Things are starting to ramp up as the first wave of migrants (other than Blackbirds) are starting to filter in to Lawrence Woods. Yellow-bellied Woodpeckers are starting to appear (They have been absent all winter.) Pheobes are calling. Yellow-rumped Warblers are in the button bushes at the pond. And I had two Hermit Thrushes back along the back side of the boardwalk. Plus Field Sparrows are singing out in the prairie. My two lists are below, they are divided by the prairie and the boardwalk....BTW, the prairie is surrounded by three roads, so it is much more vast than what you can see from the driveway. If you drive along the border roads, nearly everything that isn't developed is part of the preserve. One might be able to spot prairie type warblers later on in the spring along the back side of the preserve. Happy birding and God bless, Steve J. Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve, Hardin, Ohio, US Mar 30, 2017 9:10 AM - 11:34 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) 14 species Mallard 2 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Turkey Vulture 13 Northern Harrier 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 2 American Robin 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 Field Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 25 Red-winged Blackbird 100 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Common Grackle 25 Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve--Woods Boardwalk, Hardin, Ohio, US Mar 30, 2017 9:25 AM - 11:35 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.25 mile(s) 35 species Canada Goose 6 Wood Duck 2 Ring-necked Pheasant 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 6 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 1 Barred Owl 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Downy Woodpecker 4 Hairy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 8 Brown Creeper 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 21 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 25 European Starling 8 Yellow-rumped Warbler 26 Field Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 4 Eastern Towhee 5 Northern Cardinal 8 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 3 American Goldfinch 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/ checklist/S35535396 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]