I spent part of the morning hiking around Walnut Creek Park / Bareis Preserve in this SE Columbus suburb. This is a relatively new nature park along Walnut Creek that includes a lot of open field and overgrown field habitat. It's an uncommon habitat mix in such an urban/suburban county, and it attract a nice subset of field and successional birds. Walking the edges here this morning netted a good selection of temperate field and edge birds,including House Wren - 3+ singing Mockingbird - 1-2 on territory Brown Thrasher - 1 singing Field Sparrows - 6+ singing Chipping Sparrows - 2 singing Grasshopper Sparrows - 2 singing (FOS for me) Savannah Sparrows - 2 singing E.Meadowlark - 2 singing Redwings - 5-10 This list was in addition to the typical birds for small woodlots (of which there is one next to the fields) and marshes (there's a good one between the park and Canal WInchester Middle School). With all these habitats crammed into a relatively small area, this spot reeks of potential. Last year we had Willow Flycatchers and Yellow-br.Chats on territory here, and we'll have to see what shows up this year. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]