Interesting day yesterday at Lawrence Woods SNP (Hardin County) It was almost like Spring...only drabber. :-D I decided to check out a path that has been maintained all year, but I never had the time to see where it lead until yesterday. Turns out it is about a mile long and meanders all through some pretty good habitat. I was hoping to catch an Orange-crowned unaware...but all I found was a Female Common Yellowthroat which looked SOOOOOOO close to an Orange-crowned Warbler, that I had to wait till I got home to look at the pictures. If they keep this path open next year, it might be a good trail to go exploring for all of those spring blackbirds, and Warblers that like that type of habitat.. ;-) After completing that mile walk through the grassland, I took the traditional boardwalk path. LOTS of unidentified peeping noises...I got most I think, but things were flying in places too fast to track, and others, they hid REALLY well. :-D Notable Notes (To Me): Must be Peregrine season because I saw one fly over as I was pulling in...Beauty. Took me two years...more like five, but whose counting?...but I finally got a Mourning Warbler in the woods. A Winter Wren made a brief "here's my butt, watch me leave" presence...cute little thing, but I wish it had stayed long enough for a good picture. Lots of Blue Jays..must be passing through..usually not that many. Two Barred Owls were hooting it up at different ends of the woods. At first I thought it was something else, but a Wild Turkey was calling out in the woods somewhere. That's it for Lawrence Woods. One note for Big Island Wildlife Area...I already have a Northern Harrier for the season...she flew right in front of my car when I was heading home from Marion on Wednesday. Reminds me of a poem... Something Told The Wild Geese Something told the wild geese It was time to go; Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, - 'snow'. Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster-glossed, But beneath warm feathers Something cautioned, - 'frost'. All the sagging orchards Steamed with amber spice, But each wild breast stiffened At remembered ice. Something told the wild geese It was time to fly - Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry. - Poem by Rachel Lyman Field List from Lawrence Woods below. Happy birding, and God bless! Steve J. Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve-Prairie Path, Hardin, Ohio, US Sep 26, 2015 9:35 AM - 10:55 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: Mowed grassland trail. This would be good trail to explore grasslands for Bobolinks in the Spring. 21 species Turkey Vulture 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 4 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 flyover Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Blue Jay 12 American Crow 6 Tree Swallow 10 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 1 American Goldfinch 6 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25186287 Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve, Hardin, Ohio, US Sep 26, 2015 10:56 AM - 1:12 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.8 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.6 34 species Canada Goose 2 Wild Turkey 1 Turkey Vulture 4 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 6 Barred Owl 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Blue Jay 18 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 8 House Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 8 Ovenbird 1 Nashville Warbler 2 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 4 American Redstart 2 Magnolia Warbler 2 Field Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 8 Northern Cardinal 2 American Goldfinch 5 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25186288 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]