I braved the Columbus Audubon Whittier walk alone this morning (7:30-8:45) and observed the following species: (Below and just upstream of Greenlawn dam): Ring-necked duck - 1 Greater scaup - 1 Hooded merganser - 6 (l adore the courting males!) Pied-billed grebe - 2 American black duck - 2 Mallard - 64 Canada goose - 149 Great blue heron - 5 Ring-billed gull - 20 Herring gull - 3 (Wooded areas): Carolina wren - 1 Downy woodpecker - 2 White-throated sparrow - 15 American robin - 1 European starling - 1 House sparrow - 2 Carolina chickadee - 3 American goldfinch - 12 House finch - 11 Mourning dove - 9 Northern cardinal - 4 (Fields North of Audubon Center): Song sparrow - 7 American goldfinch - 3 After seeing so many flickers and bluebirds on my recent CBC I was surprised at their absence here. Was hoping for a kinglet, creeper, or sapsucker, but no luck. I may have went out a bit too early- by the time I left (had to get to work by 9) there was a lot more singing/activity and additional birds may have been easier to locate (heard my first wren 'chatter' & downy 'chips' around 8:30am). Weather: 21 degrees (noticeably warmer than recent trips!), slight breeze, overcast Cheers, Heather ______________________________________________________________________ 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]