Had a great hour at Chippewa Lake near Medina. Adult Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk RT hawk Two loons fishing- I know they are common but they are so cool to watch! Grebe (haven't identified yet- I shoot pictures and identify later :) ) Shovelers Hundreds of gulls I was looking for Short Eared Owls so hard I convinced myself I found two- but they turned out to be 2 very stalky hawks :) Sent from my iPod On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Gene Stauffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]