Hi all, Check out the striking contrast between Jim McCormac's detailed Shawnee State Forest bird list compared to Tom Bartlett's detailed Kelleye Island list. What a difference a little latitude makes. I camped on a private in-holding within Shawnee State Forest all weekend. I woke Saturday morning to the songs of several new birds but Sunday I woke to the songs of many new birds, Jim detailed in his list. I enjoyed the strong wave of diversity which came in overnight Saturday into Sunday morning. There were Golden-crowned Kinglets singing with Wood Thrush, Northern Parula, Ovenbird, and so on. There was a Winter Wren quietly dashing about an old building, and there was a yellow-bellied sapsucker with all the regular woodpeckers, and so on. Good birding Tom Bain The Glaciated Allegheny Plateau Ross County ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]