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I spent a few hours birding along the Alum Creek corridor north of Columbus, starting at New Galena on Alum Creek Lake, then stopping by the beach & Visitor's Center there, before finishing at Sharon Woods MetroPark.  The cold weather seemed to move lots of landbirds, both passerines & raptors, but did little for waterbirds.  Notables included:

Waterfowl - not an impressive morning when I see more on Shrock Lake than Alum Creek Reservoir (nothing but geese, Mallards)
Gulls - 350+ Ring-billed on the Alum Creek Lake beach, along with 2-3 Herring Gulls, but nothing else
Raptors - New Galena had 10 Turkey Vultures, 3 Sharpies, and 1 Red-tail in an hour
Woodpeckers - Flickers up at all spots, with high of 6 at New Galena.  New Galena also had 2 sapsuckers.
Flycatchers - single Phoebes at each stop, along with a late Wood Pewee at the ACL Visitors Center
Blue Jays - only 25 in 2 hours at Alum Creek Lake, so the migration this year has tapered off already
Vireos - only Blue-headed, but there were singles at every stop.
Wrens - 1 Winter Wren at Sharon Woods, along with House Wrens at New Galena and the beach area
Kinglets - small #s of Golden-crowns at every stop; single Ruby-crowneds at New Galena and Sharon Woods.
Thrushes - 1 Swainson's was calling from a thicket at New Galena
Mimids - Catbirds way down, with only 5-6 at New Galena and 2 at the Visitor's Center
Horned Larks - small flock of 4 at the beach signifies the first migrant flock here.
Warblers - surprisingly widespread, with 10 species.  Yellow-rumps ascendant, with 60+ over all 3 stops, but also had Nashville, Tennessee (5), Magnolia, Black-thr.Green (5), Chesnut-sided, Cape Mays (3), Blackpoll, Palm (3), and Redstart
Buntings,Grosbeaks - single Indigos at every stop; juvenile Rose-br.Grosbeak was at New Galena
Sparrows - expected small flocks of Songs and Fields at the Beach area and Sharon Woods.  SW also had 1 Swamp Sparrow
Blackbirds - a few cowbirds and grackles flew by New Galena, the vanguard of big flocks later in the month
Finches - nothing out of the ordinary, though the pocket prairie at Sharon Woods has accumulate 60 American Goldfinches.

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