I birded these two metro parks between ~8am-11:30am. Nothing to exciting but some good birds overall. BLENDON: Pond Trail, Thoreau Lake and Nature Center Area Northern Cardinal Blue Jay American Robin Carolina Wren Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Golden-Crowned Kinglet Tufted Titmouse White-Throated Sparrow Dark-Eyed Junco Eastern Towhee Carolina Chickadee White-Breasted Nuthatch Song Sparrow Yellow-Rumped Warbler American Goldfinch Eastern Bluebird Mallard Canada Goose Black Duck Northern Shoveler Gadwall Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpekcer Red-Bellied Woodpecker Coopers Hawk Brown Creeper Northern Flicker Sharon Woods: Most of the common birds above plus the following Ruddy Duck Pied-Billed Grebe White-Crowned Sparrow House Finch Turkey Vulture American Crow Field Sparrow Northern Mockingbird Chipping Sparrow -Adam Betuel Ohio State University, Zoology Student ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]