Thanks to Steve Jones and James Muller for giving me a bit of info about some of the metros, I made a quick stop to one, and I chose Blendon. I went to Thoreau Lake and Goldenrod Trail. Bird list: Lake Trail: Pileated Woodpecker: 2 Titmice: 6 Song Sparrow: 3 Tree Sparrow: 6 Juncos: 4 Chickadee: 2 Cardinals: 22 Red bellied Woodpecker: 4 Thoreau Lake: Canada Goose: 100+ Mallards: 62 COMMON MERGANSER: 3 Am. Black Duck: 13 Goldenrod trail: White Throated Sparrows: 5 Carolina Wren: 2 BARRED OWL: heard 2; 1 at the last loop on Goldenrod, other around Thoreau lake, but were never seen. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]