What a wonderful morning - nothing better than good companionship and good birds, and I was fortunate to have both! Judy W. joined me this morning to work the priority block 60D3NW, which includes much of the Tri-Valley Wildlife Area near Dresden, in Muskingum Co. Here is the list, 63 in all: turkey vulture Cooper's hawk wild turkey northern bobwhite mourning dove yellow-billed cuckoo chimney swift red-bellied woodpecker downy woodpecker northern flicker - at the nest! pileated woodpecker eastern-wood-pewee Acadian flycatcher willow flycatcher eastern phoebe great-crested flycatcher eastern kingbird tree swallow northern rough-winged swallow barn swallow cedar waxwing - on the nest! house wren gray catbird northern mockingbird brown thrasher eastern bluebird wood thrush American robin Carolina chickadee tufted titmouse blue jay American crow European starling - at the nest hole! house sparrow white-eyed vireo yellow-throated vireo red-eyed vireo American goldfinch blue-winged warbler yellow warbler prairie warbler ovenbird common yellowthroat hooded warbler scarlet tanager eastern towhee chipping sparrow field sparrow Savannah sparrow Henslow's sparrow grasshopper sparrow song sparrow northern cardinal rose-breasted grosbeak blue grosbeak bobolink red-winged blackbird eastern meadowlark common grackle brown-headed cowbird Baltimore oriole orchard oriole I also thought I heard ring-necked pheasant and hairy woodpecker, for 65. Not bad for a morning's birding, I'd say. The highlight of the morning had to be a single large sycamore tree that held - count them - four nesting species: Northern flicker (young poking heads out of cavity); cedar waxwings (pair carrying food to nestlings); starling (in and out of another cavity carrying food) and Baltimore oriole (female entering nest). In addition, there was another unoccupied nest in the same tree, probably a robin's nest, but hard to tell for certain. Judy got several Year Firsts and one Life Bird, and I got a couple of Muskingum Co. Life Firsts. All in all, a great day, shortened only by the thunderstorm that hit around 11:30. Margaret Bowman Region 60 Coordinator, OBBA II ______________________________________________________________________ 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]