Rossford IVP I birded the Rossford park for about 45 minutes during lunch. It was sunny with temperatures in the upper 50's and with very little wind, it was pleasant. The birds I saw and heard included: golden-crowned kinglets, white-throated sparrows, yellow-rumped warblers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, fox sparrows, hermit thrushes, great egrets, and juncos. I saw and/or heard about 10 juncos. For the rest of the birds, their numbers ranged from one to four.

One yellow-rumped warbler was clinging to the side of a tree and bracing himself with his tail like a woodpecker. The bird was eating the sap oozing out of a hole drilled by a yellow-bellied sapsucker. I saw a female cardinal on the ground gathering nesting material. There were a lot of bugs flying around, including a couple black butterflies with either orange or white trim. There were very few birds singing. I watched a white-breasted nuthatch pull leaves out of a hole in a tree that was created from a downed limb. The tree was near the trail along Grassy Creek.

Bluebirds at Mom and Dad's I was talking to my Mom this morning and she said the bluebird eggs were gone. Dad had not checked the house since Saturday, but he saw the female this morning on another house, so he assumed something was wrong in the Gilbertson house. He checked the nest and there was no trace of the eggs.

Rossford Island View Park I birded in Rossford this morning from 7:45 to 9:15. The skies were cloudy -- it rained most of the night -- and the winds were southerly at 5-10 mph keeping the temperatures in the upper 50's. I saw and/or heard the following: white-throated sparrows, carolina wrens, numerous golden-crowned kinglets, two fox sparrows, cedar waxwings, heard a brown thrasher, at least six yellow-bellied sapsuckers, a half dozen brown creepers, two winter wrens singing, a couple turkey vultures, American tree sparrow, song sparrows, heard a bluebird, saw one junco and heard three or four more, saw at least seven northern flickers, a couple eastern phoebes, and a single yellow-rumped warbler. A couple of deer were on the trail near the mouth of Grassy Creek.

At Home This morning there were two juncos, a song sparrow, and a red-breasted nuthatch in our backyard.

Backyard (4-8-2) In the morning a golden-crowned kinglet was in one of our trees singing.

Mom and Dad's (4-6-2) The bluebirds are nesting in the Gilberton's house near the parked cars at my parent's home. Egg laying began last Thursday and at 1:00 P.M. Saturday we checked the nest and it conained three eggs.