This morning we returned to Sharon Woods Metro Park (Franklin County) looking for some of the species missed Wednesday. Activity was moderate with birds in every area but often difficult to view in the leafed out trees. We concentrated on the Edward S. Thomas Trail and also checked the Oak Openings Trail. Today’s highlight was a tom Wild Turkey that we met at the intersection of the two trails. We first heard it “gobble” ahead of us on the trail. We stopped and it strutted down the trail, stopped to eye us, then continued down the trail right past us. Any closer and he might be introduced to gravy. Species included: Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Wild Turkey Killdeer Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood Pewee Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Palm Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Charlie Bombaci ______________________________________________________________________ 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]