Kenneth Shepherd joined me on a pleasant walk at the Whittier this morning (south of downtown Columbus, site of new Audubon Center) and these are the species we observed: Brown creeper -1 Golden-crowned kinglet - 3 Cooper's hawk - 1 Carolina chickadee - 3 American goldfinch -8 American robin - 4 White-throated sparrow - 3 Song sparrow - 2 Mourning dove - 9 Northern cardinal - 12 Herring gull - 3 Ring-billed gull - 310 Great blue heron -10 Pied-billed grebe - 1 American black duck - 22 Mallard - 11 Hooded merganser - 4 Canada goose - 24 Downy woodpecker -1 American Crow - 3 (Ken, I saw the downy and crows as I was leaving the parking lot, you may have missed them!). Amazingly there were no cormorants, and I looked in almost all of their usual hideaways (Murphy's law: that's what happens when you post you "always" see a bird in a particular location!). I didn't check down by Berliner park, so they may be there (in case anyone on this list is actually concerned about the location of wintering cormorants). 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]