This morning as I exited my car at the Wright Road parking lot at Pickerington Ponds Metro Park, Franklin County, I heard a catbird calling from the brush at the east end of the lot. I took a few steps in that direction and immediately saw the bird foraging in a small tree. Also of note were 9 Sandhill Cranes in Arrowhead Marsh, seen from the viewing deck in that area. A complete list of birds seen follows. Canada Goose 21 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 200 Ring-necked Duck 9 Lesser Scaup 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 2 American Coot 4 Sandhill Crane 9 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 2 American Tree Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 5 House Finch 15 House Sparrow 22 Gene Stauffer Grove City ______________________________________________________________________ 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]