Walking on a very blustery morning at Huffman MetroPark. There were lots of great egrets and double-crested cormorants (but no great blue herons at all), a large flock of Northern rough-winged swallows, a couple of kingfishers, and one juvenile rose-breasted grosbeak. interestingly there were a group of mallards shepherding a large flock of young, half-grown ducklings. Seems kind of late for them to be still guarding young, but there they were. Also seen: Canada geese, a warbler that I think was a juvenile black-throated blue (not 100% sure), Carolina chickadee, downy woodpecker, ring-billed gulls, white-breasted nuthatches, a robin or two, one Cooper's hawk. Blue jays and red-bellied woodpeckers were heard. ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]