Blendon Woods is located in the northeast corner of Columbus off of I 270 & Rte 161. Take the Little Turtle Way exit. Recently we have lowered the water level at Thoreau Lake. This was done to provide habitat for shorebirds. We also have remolded our area outside the Nature Center Bird Viewing area. We now have a nice stream outside the window. Birds are coming to drink & take a bath. Below is a list of some of the birds seen the last couple of days. Thoreau Lake Red-shouldered Hawk-adult-looking for frogs in the mudflats E Kingbirds-2 hatching year Mallard-female Wood duck-female with 3 ducklings Herons Great Blue Green Belted Kingfisher-female Solitary Sandpiper-2 Spotted Sandpiper-hatching year Killdeer Red-tailed Hawk Lake Trail E Wood Peewee Indigo Bunting E Towhee Hooded Warbler C Yellowthroat-female Pileated Woodpecker Carolina wren Summer Tanager A Robins-flocking together Brown Thrasher Ripple Rock Trail Barred Owl Kentucky Warbler-male Nature Center Bird Viewing Area Taking a Bath Cooper's Hawk Summer Tanager-male Imped Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Warblers Hooded-hatching year male Yellow-male House Finch-female A Goldfinch Indigo Bunting-male,female, hatching year-female Hairy Woodpecker W Turkeys-many-males were fighting to establish a pecking order. Two males faced off- they jumped 2 feet of the ground,- clasped feet together,- then landed. One of the males ran away from the fight!! A Goldfinch- eating seeds of Purple Coneflower Ruby-throated Hummingbird E bluebird-male Blendon Woods Metro Park Hotline- 614-895-6222 Nature Center 614-895-6221 Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park ______________________________________________________________________ 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]