I visited Pickerington Ponds Metro Park this afternoon. I started at the Wood Duck picnic area, and looking north from the blind to Mallard Marsh, I saw a small area of open water with a large flock of Mallards, with two Northern Pintails in the middle. The only other significant birds here were one adult and one juvenile White-crowned Sparrows. I moved to the Glacier Knoll picnic area overlooking Arrowhead Marsh, which had some open water on the far side, but it held only Mallards and a few Canada Geese. Finally at Ellis Pond I found many more Mallards, many American Black Ducks, two more Northern Pintails, three Northern Shovelers and four Green-winged Teal. I also flushed a Great Blue Heron from the ditch at the Bowen Road viewing area. Gene Stauffer Grove City ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]