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 [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]