Today I went birding on my lunch break. I saw two sharp-shinned hawks, numerous American robins, 4 mallards, and 2 Canada geese all within a stone's throw of my office in Dublin. On the way home from work I stopped at Antrim Park. The river was so high, I couldn't go back in the woods so I didn't see many woodland birds except Carolina chickadees and white-breasted nuthatches. In and around the lake I saw ring-billed gulls, American coots, mallards, Canada geese, hooded mergansers, American robins, white-throated sparrows, house sparrows, European starlings, American crows, and my first red-winged blackbirds of the season. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]