I spent an hour yesterday raoming around the SCioto MetroPark in downtown Columbus. A slow start gradually warmed into a decent morning, with several temperate migrants. Highlights included: Cormorants - 20+ Great Blue Herons - 3 Black Ducks - 2 Peregrine - 1 (a gray adult that buzzed the mudflat on the river) Cooper's Hawk - 1 adult Bald Eagle - 1 juvenile south of Scioto, at Haul Road Quarries Ring-billed Gulls - 150+ on the mudflats Brown Creepers - 4+ in the riparian woods along the bikepath Robins - 35-40 along the bikepath Kinglets - both single Ruby-crowned & Golden-crowned along the bikepath White-throated Sparrows - 25+ along the bikepath Fox Sparrows - 3 along the bikepath Purple Finch - 1 flyover, headed south over the Grange Audubon Center ______________________________________________________________________ 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]