Today, in the mist clad morning coolness, I spent some time in my fields by the power lines counting for my e bird submissions. There were a few surprises, first of them a chestnut sided warbler. I couldn't find any chestnut colouring at all, but there was a bit of yellow around the vent, so perhaps a first fall female? (Reading from J. Dunn's Warblers.) Also what I took to be an immature blue grey gnatcatcher, since it still had downy white feathers on the rump. But most interesting was an immature red headed woodpecker, that I almost overlooked. Expecting a flicker or red bellied woodpecker, the birds that are always on the dead elm, it took me a minute to realize I was looking at an unusual visitor to my yard. A dusky head, and white wing patches still bisected with a dark line. This is the third time in 15 years here that a juvenile has visited. Never, an adult. He spent some time resting in the pileated woodpecker's nesting hole. The same snag attracted a male kestrel. Inga Schmidt Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuy Co. line ______________________________________________________________________ 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]