Something told me to check the bike trail for migrants this morning. I sure am glad I did! My five mile walk (round trip) yielded 73 species (list below) for 5 hours of birding, plus one more upon returning home for a total of 74 species. Early this morning, most birds were low (in shrubs or on the ground) and singing. By late morning most of them were high (in the tree tops) and quiet. At times there were so many birds singing that my ears were ringing, especially when several Gray Catbirds and Yellow Warblers were singing only feet away from me. Side note: I quit counting chipmunks when I reached 50. They were everywhere.... Surprises included one male Connecticut Warbler (observed for two minutes) and three Marsh Wrens. Several species high in numbers (for here) include: House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Gray Catbird, Yellow Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, and Eastern Towhee, My favorite moment was watching a male Hooded Warbler flitting around in the understory. He landed on the branch of a small sapling about 15 feet away from me, right in a ray of sunlight, He threw back his head and sang over and over again. :) Judy Hochadel Canada Goose Wood Duck - 2 (2 locations, one in each place) Green-winged Teal - 2 (a pair) Mallard Turkey Vulture - 4 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Killdeer - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 3 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 2 having a tiff in midair Mourning Dove Barred Owl - 2 (2 locations, one in each place about 1 mile apart) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Acadian Flycatcher - 3 (all singing at the same time) Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Tree Swallow - 21 Barn Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee - observed 2 mating Eastern Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren - 14 Marsh Wren - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 13 Eastern Bluebird Veery - 8 Hermit Thrush - 1 Wood Thrush - 6 American Robin Gray Catbird - 17 (I found two nests, watched then being built) European Starling Solitary Vireo - 3 Warbling Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Blue-winged Warbler - 6 Yellow Warbler - 39 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Palm Warbler - 4 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 American Redstart - 11 Prothonotary Warbler - 1 Ovenbird - 2 Connecticut Warbler - 1 (male, watched it for ~2 minutes, sang several times, in shrubs about 10 feet away from me) Common Yellowthroat - 11 Hooded Warbler - 2 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - numerous and mostly in pairs Eastern Towhee - 20 Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow - 3 singing Fox Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow - 17 *White-crowned Sparrow - 1 at my feeder when I returned home Bobolink - 2 males singing Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark - 2 males Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole - 3 House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]