We had a great morning on the boardwalk behind the Visitor Center at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge - a big thanks to our guide, Ethan Kistler of the Ohio Young Birders Club! Guides from the Black Swamp Bird Observatory or refuge volunteers will be leading walks every Friday morning in May, meeting at the Visitor Center at 8:00 a.m. Here are some highlights from our list: Great-crested Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Palm Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole Bobolink Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Reminder - the Ottawa NWR auto tour route is open both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, 9 am to 4 pm. Thanks - happy birding! Laura A. Bonneau Visitor Services Specialist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge 14000 West State Route 2 Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449 (419) 898-0014 www.fws.gov/midwest/ottawa ______________________________________________________________________ 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]