I roamed through several parks in this NW Columbus suburb this morning, starting at Trabue Preserve, then going to Avery Park and Glacier Ridge, before finishing up along the Scioto River gorge at O'Shaughnessy Dam and Amberleigh Park. Snow & ice away from the river made ground -feeders virtually non-existant, but there were still plenty of woodpeckers, flock birds, and fruit-eaters. The river had better diversity, and the ice-free areas had decent waterfowl flocks, though mostly it was Mallards and Geese. Notables included: Mute Swans - 3 of them were hanging out by a hole in the ice at Lake Corazon Mergansers - Hoodeds were at several areas along the river, but Amberleigh also had 10 Commons Raptors - Red-tails were at many locations, but other raptors were fairly scarce Flickers - the big woodpeckers were much in evidence, with 5 at Glacier Ridge, and 2-3 elsewhere Kinglets - only had a few Golden-crowns, at Trabue and O'Shaughnessy Dam Bluebirds - 1-2 at many different locations, often feeding on berries Mockingbird - 1 was in a yard next to Lake Corazon, defending a berrybush Sparrows - not much besides a handful of Juncos & White-throats, but did find a flock of 8 Tree Sparrows in a planted prairie area at Glacier Ridge ______________________________________________________________________ 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]