Shaune Skinner and I visited several Columbus Metro Parks in southern Franklin County and I stopped by Lake Logan in Hocking County on the way home. More to see in the Metro Parks today. Lists are as follows: Chestnut Ridge MP: Wood Duck - 6 Canada Goose - 10 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 Song Sparrow - 4 House Sparrow - 2 House Finch - 2 Carolina Wren - 1 American Robin - 10 Carolina Chickadee - 1 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Northern Cardinal - 10 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 12 Turkey Vulture - 12 Slate Run MP: Lesser Scaup - 8 Canada Goose - 6 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Northern Cardinal - 10 Blue Jay - 2 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Song Sparrow - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 American Crow - 6 Pickerington Ponds MP: Ring-necked Duck - 79 American Black Duck - 2 Gadwall - 11 Mallard - 66 Green-winged Teal - 9 American Coot - 43 Hooded Merganser - 3 Northern Shoveler - 12 American Wigeon - 2 Bufflehead (female) - 1 Canada Goose - 50 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Ring-necked Pheasant (male) - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Great Blue Heron (all sitting on nests) - 12 Killdeer - 7 Northern Cardinal - 2 American Robin - 2 Song Sparrow - 4 Mourning Dove - 3 Blue Jay - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 13 (1 female) Carolina Chickadee - 2 2 unidentified swallows flying over water (tree ?) Lake Logan: Mute Swan - 9 Canada Goose - 7 Mallard - 12 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 5 American Robin - 1 Northern Cardinal - 2 American Crow - 2 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]