Sorry for the late-ish post since we saw the bird around noon today it was hard to get to a posting location. Anyways, the Boardwalk was ok today but a tiny bit slow. Remembering Kenn Kaufman, and other folks like Dan Sander's, advice (thank you very much men) I headed to the woodlots at Ottawa NWA. The small rectangular lot right infront of the parking lot (at the older part of ottawa, not near the visitor center) was the best place, lots and lots of warblers were in there and singing away on this cool day at around noon. Nice stuff all of it and I'll get to that later, but when Dr. Dan Mosher and I rounded the southwest corner of the lot we both heard the unique call of the CONNECTICUT WARBLER come tumbling from just inside the wooded border. It called several times at this moment and we were searching searching for the little rascal. Finally we got so lucky/blessed to see the guy hop up from the grassy forest floor to take perch in a small tree. We had amazing looks, this was a state-bird for Dr. Mosher and a much desired and sought after Life-bird for me. Pretty soon after this he hopped back into the grasses to dissappear for a bit onto the ground. But a few more times he came up from the cover to stand on some low grapevine and then a low brushy tree again about an hour later. He seemed to prefer that quadrant of the lot, I saw him twice from the inner trail that goes through the woodlot and thrice from the road that goes along the southern border. He called a couple more times but not nearly as long as the first time, had Dr. Mosher and I not been the students of song that we were, we'd have probably never seen the bird at all. I was needlessly to say, quite happy. Another good bird we had in this lot was a Kentucky Warbler female. Earlier on the Magee Boardwalk we saw a Mourning Warbler so I guess you could saw we got the eastern Oporonis hatrick! I'll say something else, This woodlot was stocked full of Blackpoll Warblers both males and females, and they were singing away all the time we were there. I've seen a lot of Blackpolls this spring as well as an unusual amount of Canada Warblers (hard to say but we saw maybe 12 Canada's today). This little woodlot was way more active than the boardwalk was. List: Ottawa: Connecticut Warbler - 1 male singing and then seen! Kentucky Warbler - 1 female Canada Warbler - 4 apprx. Wilson's Warbler - 2 Blackpolls - 6 maybe more Blackburnian - 8+ (completely lacking from the boardwalk) Baybreasted - males and females 10+ Cape-may - 6+ Tennessee - 2 (almost lacking from the boardwalk) Palm - 2 Black-and-white - 6 Yellow-rumped - 10+ (a surprising amount of these in here) Yellow - 4+ Common Yellowthroat - 4 N. Parula - 1 Ovenbird - 2 Black-throated Green - 4+ Black-throated Blue - 4+ American Redstart - 8+ Magnolia - numerous Chestnut-sided - 6 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Warbling Vireo - several Swainson's Thrushes Wood Thrush - heard in the bigger woods further south Baltimore Orioles American Woodcock Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (very vocal) Empidonax sp. - 2 (not a least or a yellow-bellied) etc. Magee Boardwalk + Crane Creek Mourning Warbler - 1 (saw mine in the scruffy stuff at the western end of the parking lot Canada Warbler - almost numerous Wilson's Warbler - 6 N. Parula - 2 Tenessee - 1 heard N. Waterthrush - 1 Black-throated Blue - good numbers about 12 Yellow Common Yellowthroats Black-throated Greens Cape-mays Am. Redstarts Black-and-whites Blackpoll - 2 Yellow-rumped - 2 Bay-breasted - 5 Magnolias Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Hooded Merganser - seen come in and land in a tree (female) Wood Ducks Sora Solitary Sandpiper Screech Owl E. Wood-peewee Hermit Thrush - 1 seemed a bit late eh? Veery Glossy Ibis - seen on the loop trail near the visitor center at Crane-creek Snowy Egret - same place as the Glossy's (both seen pretty close in) Metzger Marsh: (no Ibis seen, no black terns, no Plovers except listed sp) Sanderling - 1 new for the year, in decent breeding plumage (on small beach by the main dike) White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 Least Sandpipers Short-billed Dowitcher - 10+ Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone - 5 Dunlins - you try and count them. Semipalm. Plover - plenty Killdeer Forster's Tern - 4 Juveniles and at least 2 adults Common Tern - 2 adults Caspian Tern - 1 adult Snowy Egrets - 2 Bald Eagle - 1 adult 1 juvenile etc. ( we saw another Canada Warbler in the trees at the end) Sorry for the long post and roughly abbreviated names and numbers, we just had a lot of stuff, I left a lot off as well. Hopefully nothing too important. Yeehaw, and Good Birding! - Ben Warner, on sojourn from Sunbury, OH ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]