The Columbus CBC team covering this area found a good set of birds this morning despite the cold weather, totaling 52 species. Numbers were modest, especially for sparrows and waterfowl, but it was a good day for raptors and forest birds. Highlights included: Cooper's Hawks - 5 Sharp-shinned hawk - 1 (Blacklick Woods - Gene Stauffer) Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 adult (Blacklick Woods) Bald Eagle - 1 adult (Portman Park) American Kestrel - 1 Barred Owl - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 (Big Walnut Park) Red-br.Nuthatch - 1 (Blacklick Woods) Winter Wren - 1 (Natzger Park) Yellow-rumped Warblers - 22+ (Blacklick Woods) E.Towhee - 5 (Blacklick Woods) Field Sparrow - 1 (Chatterton Greenbelt) Rusty Blackbird - 1 (feeder at Big Walnut shelter house) Pine siskin - 4 (sweetgums at Blacklick Woods - Pam Raver) The Blue-phase Snow Goose reported there for a few days was AWOL, presumably having left with some Canada geese. A Merlin was also reported yesterday from the Blacklick Golf Course, but couldn't be relocated. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]