*Blendon Woods is located in the northeast corner of Columbus off of I 270 & Rte 161. Take the Little Turtle Way exit. I would like to thank the Metro Park visitors for helping find these birds this morning* Blendon Woods Metro Park, Franklin, US-OH Apr 6, 2014 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.66 mile(s) Comments: Lake Trail 6 species Wild Turkey 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Bluebird 1 Eastern Towhee 2 Fox Sparrow 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17771013 Blendon Woods Metro Park--Thoreau Pond, Franklin, US-OH Apr 6, 2014 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: Waterfowl refuge - east & west blind and behind Thoreau Lake 21 species Canada Goose 44 American Black Duck 31 Mallard 8 Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal 1 Ring-necked Duck 2 Greater Scaup 1 Lesser Scaup 10 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 6 Cooper's Hawk 1 American Coot 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4 Eastern Phoebe 4 Tree Swallow 8 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 10 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17771215 Blendon Woods Metro Park--Sugarbush Trail, Franklin, US-OH Apr 6, 2014 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.2 mile(s) 1 species Red-shouldered Hawk 1 catching a thermal View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17770903 Blendon Woods Metro Park, Franklin, US-OH Apr 6, 2014 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Nature Center & parking lot 8 species Wild Turkey 2 Carolina Wren 1 Pine Warbler 1 seen at 9 am Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 6 House Finch 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17771356 Blendon Woods Metro Parks 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. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]