Greetings all. Birded Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park (SW of Columbus) along the Dyer Mill and Ancient Trails for a couple hours this morning. Great Blue Heron (1) Canada Goose Wood Duck (3) Ring-necked Pheasant (2-3 heard) Turkey Vulture Osprey (1) Red-tailed Hawk (2) Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (5) Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker (1) Eastern Phoebe (5) Tree Swallow (6-7) Northern Rough-winged Swallow (1) Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper (1) Winter Wren (1) Golden-crowned Kinglet (20 + total across 3 flocks) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (3) Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush (1) American Robin Gray Catbird (1 heard) European Starling Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee White-throated Sparrow (2s & 3s here and there) Song Sparrow Field Sparrow (many) Vesper Sparrow (2-3) Fox Sparrow (1) Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch Good birding to all. Mike Yough Glen Echo/Columbus -- "Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels he is 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him." -C.S. Lewis (from The Screwtape Letters) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]