I spent several hours today at my old patch, clear creek. I didn’t expect it to be very birdy given the weather and I was correct about that but it was still quite enjoyable. My main focus was tracking down a Worm-eating Warbler which I had not seen this year and although I’ve heard Hooded Warblers, I haven’t actually seen one so I figured a visit to clear creek would take care of that. I did manage to hear one Worm-eating singing but even though it seemed like it was fairly close, I never even saw movement. I usually have better luck seeing them after they’re out and about feeding young. Hoodeds were fairly easy to find and a lovely male perched & sang right in front of me. No KY tho—a bit unusual for me but it was getting hot by the time I reached the best area for them. Ceruleans were singing into the heat of the day and a few came down low for great looks. Redstart pairs quite active. I watched a female gathering cobwebs for a nest. Also heard my FOS YB Cuckoo. Warblers Worm-eating FOS (H) Cerulean Am Redstart BT Green BT Blue (female) B&W (h) Com YT Yellow N Parula (h) Tennessee La WT Hooded Ovenbird Magnolia Vireos Yellow-throated White-eyed (h) Red-eyed Blue-headed Swainson’s Thrush Wood Thrush Veery Pewee Acadian FC Great Crested FC YB Cuckoo FOS (h) Rough-winged Swallows Tree Swallow Scarlet Tanager BG Gnatcatcher Pileated WP Peggy Wang Granville Sent from my iPad ______________________________________________________________________ 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]