I birded Shawnee from noon yesterday to noon today (and a quick turn down Moore's Lane). I birded three loops: US52 to SR125 to T102 to Odell Creek SF14 to SF1 back to US52 from noon to 5pm yesterday; US52 to Nace Run SF2 to SF13 to Pond Run SF1 back to US52 from 6pm to 8pm yesterday; US52 to Pond Run SF1 to Pond Lick Run SF2 to Upper Twin Creek C96 to US52 from 7am to noon today. Don't try to bird this area without a map! Birding started slowly (due to the time of day), but got increasingly better. I even had a life bird: Ruffed Grouse, which I had asked about on OhioBirds. At McBride Lake on Pond Run, two beavers were swimming around--another first in my life to see. My complete list of birds seen follows (heard many more than I saw), with first-of-season birds (for me) in caps: Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Blue-Winged Teal BROAD-WINGED HAWK RUFFED GROUSE (Lifer)(nice, long look as it froze crossing road) American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo RED-EYED VIREO Blue Jay American Crow Horned Lark Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Whie-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush (watched it sing, and spar with another) American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, 5+ TENNESSEE WARBLER, 1 NASHVILLE WARBLER, 2 Yellow Warbler, 3 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler, lots Black-throated Green Warbler, 3 Blackburnian Warbler, 2 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, 2 Pine Warbler, 1 PRAIRIE WARBLER, 2 CERULEAN WARBLER, 1 Black-and-White Warbler, 3 AMERICAN REDSTART, 2m/1f WORM-EATING WARBLER, 1 Ovenbird, 1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, 1 Hooded Warbler, 2 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, 3 (cavorting/singing all around me) Scarlet Tanager, 5m/2f Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 1m/2f Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird BALTIMORE ORIOLE, 2 American Goldfinch House Sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]