Nine of us met on Armitage Road (Yang Y, Leslie P, Allyn P, Lynn J, Steve & Linda B and Steve & Lori VK) on a cool, partly cloudy Saturday morning. As we walked up and down the road, we picked up quite a few birds in a little over an hour, hearing more than we saw. The Warbling Vireos and Northern Yellow Warblers were singing everywhere and it's always a joy to hear the Wood Thrush's fluting call off in the distance. After some campers left, we took a walk down to canal to

A warm, calm morning was just about perfect for our outing to South Spring Pool. Steve & Linda Benedict, Steve & Lori VanKirk, Allyn Paul, Leslie Preston, Lyn Jacobs, Sue Salisbury-VanCamp, Holly Noble, and Rich Russell, set out to see what we could find. We didn't get a large number of species, as the weather threatened to turn, and at the first sign of rain we decided that discretion was the better part of valor and retired to breakfast. 22 Species Observed 68 individuals

Our group of five (Steve & Lori VanKirk, Holly Noble, Allyn Paul and Lyn Jacobs arrived at the meeting place in a downpour and made the decision to go directly to breakfast. It was the right decision; the sun was shining as we left the Valley Inn. Unfortunately, we could not find our target bird, Clay-colored Sparrow. We did get great looks at a small group of Field Sparrows foraging in a shrub. Green Herons flew over several times and Red-winged Blackbirds seemed to be forag