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While birding around Scioto Audubon park (the old Whittier peninsula), I flushed up 2 different adult Night Herons along the Scioto next to the bikepath.  Later from the pier at the boat launch, I could see them sunning themselves in trees along the shore.  Their skittish behavior and the absence of recent reports suggests to me that they had recently arrived.  Later in the day, I had the chance to check the roosting area along the Olentangy River on the O.S.U. campus (about 2 miles north of Scioto Audubon), and there were 3 adults there as well.  I suspect that these birds have arrived within the last week, although their place of origin remains a mystery.

Scioto Audubon had other birds of interest as well, with an adult Bald Eagle, 3 cormorants, and a flock of 22 Hooded Mergansers the most noteworthy.  The sparrow fields north of the Grange center had a Fox Sparrow (along the edge) as well as the usual assortment of Song Sparrows, White-throateds, and Juncos.  A flock of 20 Kildeer were hanging around the lawn fringing the new wetland, despite a flurry of construction activity as workers were putting in a new boardwalk.

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