I spent the entire day birding today starting at Paul S. Metzger Park in Westerville at 7:15 this morning and finally getting hom 12.5 hours later. At Metzger Park Canada Geese Mallards Blue-Winged Teal Goldfinches Tree Sparrows American Robins Mouring Doves Cedar Waxwing American Crow Downy Woodpeckers House Sparrows Blue Jays Song Sparrows Northern Cardinals Eastern Bluebirds (male chasing female) Tufted Titmice (courting) Carolina Chickadees White-Breasted Nuthatches Red-Winged Blackbirds At Sharon Woods Blue Jays (two of them were carrying nesting material) Eastern Bluebirds (one of the females was carrying nesting material) Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Red-Bellied Woodpecker Northern Flickers Brown Thrashers Eastern Phoebes Tree Swallows Turkey Vultures Eastern Towhees Brown-Headed Cowbirds Canada Geese Horned Grebes Blue-Winged Teals American Coots At Highbanks Red-Tailed Hawks Ring-Necked Ducks Lesser Scaups Hooded Mergansers Wood Ducks Black Ducks Buffleheads Northern Shovelers Ruddy Ducks Blue-Winged Teals Horned Grebes The fun didn't end there. When I got home the regular pair of House Finches was at my feeder. Before long the Song Sparrow that feeds on the ground under it showed uo two. There were two redheads and a lesser scaup on one of the ponds in the apartment complex. There was also a nesting goose near the same pond. The female mallards have been absent for a while. I guess they're out sitting on their nests. Al La Sala Columbus Baltimore Oriole Dark-Eyed Juncos ______________________________________________________________________ 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]