Blendon Woods Metro Park is located in the northeast corner of Columbus off of I 270 and Rte 161. Take the Little Turtle Way exit. Below is a list of some of the birds seen today (April 22nd)-Earth Day Thoreau Lake N Shoveler-2 males Pied-billed Grebe-2 Mallard-ducklings Wood Duck-pair Herons Green Great Blue Heron Swallows Tree Barn N Rough-winged E Phoebe-pair Kinglets Golden-crowned Ruby-crowned Warblers Pine-2 Palm-2 Yellow-rumped-6 Yellow-throated Prothonotary Swamp Sparrow Carolina Wren Red-tailed Hawk-displaying mating behavior while flying ( touching talons) Osprey Cooper's Hawk-chasing Osprey E Towhee-pair White-throated Sparrow Lake Trail E bluebirds Turkeys-everywhere-males displaying Columbus Metro Park Nature Center 614-895-6221 Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park in Columbus Nature Center Hairy Woodpecker-male ______________________________________________________________________ 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]