Rocky Fork Metro Park Directions: From 1 270 take exit 30 to SR161/New Albany, Go 3 miles, turn right on New Albany Rd E. Go 0.5 miles & turn onto SR605. Go 1.4 miles, turn right on E Walnut St. Entrance 0.7 miles on left Last Friday was the Grand Opening. I have explored the park. The area has an overgrown orchard, meadows, woods, woodland edge, a small pond & some areas where water collects. The park has great potential for Birding. The North Meadows Trail will become a Grassland area. This area is around 100 acres. Eventually the area will have Grassland birds. The small pond had Wood Ducks yesterday & I received reports that many varieties of Waterfowl have been seen in the pond during migration. In the area where water collects, I saw a Solitary Sandpiper.The overgrown orchard will be a good place to look for birds during fall migration as well as in the spring when the fruit trees are blooming. On the woodland edge I saw Indigo Buntings & in the woods I heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. I will be birding the area for Fall Migration so I will be sending out Bird reports. I am excited about learning a new Metro Park birding area. Blendon Woods Metro Park employees will be maintaining the area. Blendon Woods Metro Park Nature Center 614-895-6221 Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park in Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]