Here is the report from Jon Benedetti: Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:32 PM Subject: Today's MBC outing - The Wilds Today's Mountwood Bird Club outing to The Wilds in Ohio was attended by Sandy Albrecht, Grace Arnold, Lucine Wright, Mike Wine and I. We were driven back into the car four or five times in the morning, but then had pretty good weather. The birding was good to excellent all day. A good number of species and good numbers of individuals as well. Highlights: "**" of special note Green Heron - 2 Black Vulture - 1 Osprey - 6 - (two were chicks) American Coot - 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Chimney Swift Eastern Phoebe *Willow Flycatcher - >10 empidonax - sp. Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird - >10 White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird *Brown Thrasher - >20 Cedar Waxwing - >8 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Yellow Warbler - >15 Prairie Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - >15 Yellow-breasted Chat - 6 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Field Sparrow *Savannah Sparrow - 4 - a couple in great view for a minute or more. *Grasshopper Sparrow - >10 - numerous great views singing and not singing. *Henslow's Sparrow -3 - one in great view singing for 3-1/2 to 5 minutes. Swamp Sparrow - 2 - one in great view and singing for two or three minutes. ** Lapland Longspur - 1 - winter plumage male. Wrong plumage and place for June. CR 20 Indigo Bunting *Bobolink - lots and lots, and just about everywhere we went Eastern Meadowlark - lots and lots and everywhere we went Orchard Oriole - 6 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Other birds: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Wren American Robin European Starling Eastern Towhee Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow Jon Benedetti Sent by: Richard Esker Wood County West Virginia [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]