11/29  2P cloudy, about 50
Battelle Darby Metro Park and surrounding areas.  Rather quiet.

BDMP, entrance, weeds/mixed deciduous-pine margin.
Cooper's Hawk  1 f
Downy Woodpecker  12
Hairy Woodpecker  7
Red bellied Woodpecker  10
Brown Creeper  4
Carolina Wren  7
Winter Wren  4
GCKinglet  14
Hermit Thrush  8
Eastern Towhee  5
ATSparrow  35
WTSparrow  10
Slate colored Junco  50
American Goldfinch  13

Elsewhere:

Red Tailed Hawk  7 (5 imm, 2 ad.)  Marsh/prairie, Darby House, White
Barn/Greenways Trail
Yellow shafted Flicker  11 (flying Kulhwien Rd.)
Blue Jay  65
Common Crow  11
Eastern Bluebird  60 (small flocks along BDCreek Rd., Nature Center)
American Robin 300

12/1  9 - 11A, Sun, 30-38
Hoover Dam, Walnut north to Smothers Rd.
Franklin Co.

Ring necked Duck  25
Hooded Merganser  45
Canada Goose  1
Pied billed Grebe 2
Red-tailed Hawk  1 ad.
Bald Eagle 4 ad.
Bonaparte's Gull  120
Ring billed Gull  190  (all ad.)
Herring Gull  4 (ad.)

Delaware Co.  Smothers Rd. and Sunbury Rd.
Small parking lot in NE corner Bridge 40.1319, -82.8837
nook-and-cranny along reservoir edge, weeds and grass/deciduous edge and margin
Many birds along margins incl. Eastern Bluebirds, Northern Cardinals,
Carolina Chickadees, American Goldfinches, Golden crowned Kinglets,
sparrow's and more.

Common Loon  1 (juv. just offshore)

Downy Woodpecker  5
Pileated Woodpecker  1
chickadee sp. (BCCH/CARC) 4 (at least 23 Carolina Chickadees)
Blue Jay  15
Common Crow  3
TTitmouse  0
WB Nuthatch  6
Brown Creeper  5
Carolina Wren  8
Winter Wren  4
Hermit Thrush  10
Cedar Waxwing  40 (one flock in flight)
PALM (W) WARBLER  1 (drab, olive brown with pale underparts, and
contrasting yellow vent region....bobbed tail often, yellow brown
rump, narrow tail flicked in flight showing two white spots in corners
of outer tail.)  Not able to get photo (problem with auto focus).
Late;  in past seven years we've noted four Dec. Palm's (12/7/12;
12/15 & 25/13; 12/8/15) and one mid winter Palm (1/12/14).  All have
been W.
Slate-colored Junco  5
Eastern Towhee  4
AMTree Sparrow  22
Song Sparrow  10

Good birding
--
David & Patty Tan
Columbus
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