Couldn't stay inside on such a beautiful day, so I spent the day at 3 wetland on Wayne National Forest lands not far from where I live. Spring has sprung, and it is also tick season (tuck your pant legs into your socks/boots so you can see them when they hitch a ride !). Tansky's Marsh (Perry Co; S.R. 93 several miles west of New Straitsville) Yellow Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 2 Blue-Winged Warbler 2 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Song Sparrow 1 Tree Swallow 1 Killdeer 1 Red-Tailed Hawk 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Crow 3 Gray Catbird 3 Red-Winged Blackbird 10 White-Breasted Nuthatch 1 Cardinal 2 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Towhee 3 Canada Goose 2 Greendale Wetland (Hocking Co.; S.R. 595 south of New Straitsville): White-Eyed Vireo 2 Black & White Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Tree Swallow 1 Red-Winged Blackbird 2 Chickadee 1 Song Sparrow 2 Canada Goose 5 Mallards 2 Robin 1 Cardinal 2 Crow 1 Rutherford Wetland (Hocking Co.; S.R. 278 several miles north of Carbon Hill): White-Eyed Vireo 4 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Chickadee 2 Tree Swallow 10 Eastern Towhee 1 Robin 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-Winged Blackbird 20 Cardinal 4 Mourning Dove 2 Crow 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Gray Catbird 1 Canada Goose 8 P.S. - The Whip-poor-will that has been present for the last 2 years just down the road from my house on Price Road arrived for the first time on Friday night !! Ann Cramer Logan, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]