I picked up a life bird on this trip, Yellow-Throated Vireo (#346), which isn't actually all that rare but is one of those birds that just eludes you for a while. I'm sure now that I've seen one, I will now see them everywhere, like I did with Blue-Headed Vireo last year. I also picked up a state bird, American Bittern, at a little wetland northwest of the Pickaway County Airport on the way back.
I had 18 species of warbler, pretty good list. I only heard Black-throated Greens, Ovenbirds, and Northern Parulas. In addition, I missed a couple warblers that others saw: Golden-winged Warbler (@#$%%@#!!!) and Yellow-breasted Chat.
Besides the birds, we had a good day for wildflowers and reptiles, too. After the main group split up, 7 of us went over to a nature preserve in Adams county which features lots of rare plants, like Indian paintbrush and Pink Lady's Slipper orchids, and I saw a fence lizard and the snake guy in the group found us a couple of Black King Snakes, which were pretty friendly. I took a couple pictures on my camera phone.
Pink Lady's Slipper
Black King SnakeIn all, I had 71 species and birded for about 12 hours (including drive time). I added 31 species to my year list and 34 to my state year list, for totals of 165 for the year and 160 for Ohio.
Here's my list for the day (year birds in bold, Ohio year birds in italics):
| Wood Duck | 2 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 2 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 1 |
| American Bittern | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 12 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 2 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 1 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 2 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 5 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
| Wilson's Snipe | 5 |
| Chimney Swift | 2 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 1 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 2 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 2 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 1 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 10 |
| Blue Jay | 2 |
| American Crow | 1 |
| Horned Lark | 10 |
| Purple Martin | 10 |
| Tree Swallow | 3 |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 1 |
| Barn Swallow | 6 |
| | 2 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 3 |
| Wood Thrush | 3 |
| American Robin | 10 |
| Gray Catbird | 1 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| European Starling | X |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 11 |
| | 2 |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 3 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 1 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 6 |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 1 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 2 |
| Pine Warbler | 3 |
| Prairie Warbler | 6 |
| Cerulean Warbler | 1 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 1 |
| American Redstart | 15 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 1 |
| Ovenbird | 12 |
| | 1 |
| | 1 |
| Hooded Warbler | 2 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 5 |
| Eastern Towhee | 15 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 1 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | X |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 1 |
| Common Grackle | X |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 |
| Orchard Oriole | 2 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
| American Goldfinch | 2 |
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