Yesterday, Sept. 1, Jeannine Ellison, Jeanette & Dick Esker and I went to Pickerington Ponds (PP), Hoover Reservoir (HR), and Battelle Darby Creek (DC) near Columbus. It was cool and rainy to start and hot and sunny at the end. It was our first time at Darby Creek, and we got great information and advice from the people in the Naturalist office there. Highlights: Pied-billed Grebe - PP, HR, DC Double-crested Cormorant - HR Great Egret - PP, HR, DC Green Heron - PP, HR Wood Duck - PP, HR, DC Blue-winged Teal - DC Osprey - HR Cooper's Hawk - PP Sora - PP Common Gallinule - PP American Coot - DC Semipalmated Plover - DC Greater Yellowlegs - DC Lesser Yellowlegs - DC Solitary Sandpiper - PP, DC - including the all white one at PP Spotted Sandpiper - HR Semipalmated Sandpiper - DC Least Sandpiper - DC Pectoral Sandpiper - DC Wilson's Snipe - PP **Wilson's Phalarope - DC Ring-billed Gull - HR Herring Gull - HR Caspian Tern - HR Chimney Swift - PP, DC Ruby-throated Hummingbird - PP Red-headed Woodpecker - HR Eastern Phoebe - PP House Wren - PP Savannah Sparrow - DC Other birds seen: Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren American Robin Northern Mockingbird Gray Catbird European Starling Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow Jon Benedetti Vienna, WV ______________________________________________________________________ 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]