My wife and I spent about an hour at Pickerington Ponds Metro Park southeast of Columbus on Saturday afternoon. We stopped in at the two ponds east of Bowen Road and saw the following species: Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Black Duck Gadwall Mallard Pintail American Wigeon Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Green-Winged Teal Redhead Ring-Necked Duck Hooded Merganser Unidentified buteo in the distance Northern Harriers (2) Ring-Necked Pheasant (heard only) American Coot Killdeer Mourning Dove Rock Dove Downy Woodpecker Carolina Chickadee W-B Nuthatch Mockingbird American Crow Cardinal Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird European Starling House Sparrow The sparrows and waterfowl were abundant and active. Marc Schroeder Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]