I had a reasonably successful outing at Clear Creek this morning but the biggest surprise was when I came home & glanced at my feeders. First I saw the Rose-breasted Grosbeak which has been coming in regularly but wait, what’s that other red, black & white bird?? It was an adult Red-headed WP eating sunflower seeds from the platform feeder! Didn’t know they ate seed…I now have all the Ohio WPs as backyard birds.

At Clear Creek, I picked up many of the nesters for the area with some FOY. Also got my FOY Indigo Bunting. The only surprise was a pair of Common Mergansers on the Creek—I believe that’s a new species for my Clear Creek list. A few warblers escaped sighting so heard only.

Warblers
Pine h
Blue-winged FOY
Cerulean
B&W h FOY
Black-throated Green h
Am Redstart male
Yellow
Ovenbird 
Com YT h
La WT
Hooded Warbler FOY
N Parula
Worm-eating h FOY

Common Merganser pair

Brown Thrasher h
Gray Catbird
Wood Thrush
Red-breasted Nuthatch h
White-breasted Nuthatch
BG Gnatcatcher
Pileated WP
House Wren
Indigo Bunting FOY
Rose-breasted GB male

Only vireo White-eyed
Only swallow Rough-winged
Sparrows: White-throated, Chipping, Song plus towhees
Raptors: Red-shouldered & Red-tailed, TVs

Peggy Wang
Granville
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