Yesterday, January 8th, eight participants joined Kory Renaud and me for the Detroit River and Ojibway Park OFO Outing. We finished w/ a total of 48 species w/ stops at Lakeview Park Marina, Little River Corridor Park, and Ojibway Park, as well as a bonus trip to Memorial Forest in Amherstburg for the Boreal Chickadee (present since December 27th). Temperatures stayed around 0-1C for the whole day and it was very calm w/ hardly a breeze, which made for a pleasant day of birding. Recent milder temperatures have opened up the waters of Lake St. Clair so waterfowl and gulls were less concentrated on the Detroit River compared to other years of this outing. We still had a good count of Hooded Mergansers, however, and an assortment of other ducks including highlights like Gadwall and Wood Duck. Numbers of Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, and Common Goldeneye were all considerably lower than when Lake St. Clair is frozen over. Our next stop was Little River Corridor Park where we found a few more Wood Ducks for the day swimming in the water tanks of the Little River Pollution Control Plant. We also picked up several common wintering passerines. The main attraction here, however, was the number of Canvasbacks that flew over. It's always a highlight of the Detroit River outing to see the large numbers of Canvasback that overwinter in the area. Counting by 100's, we ended up w/ 2,700 Canvasback streaming over (likely flying from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the river). After lunch, we walked the wooded trails of Ojibway Park. Here we had close looks at several Tufted Titmouse along w/ a variety of other common species. Ojibway Park is an excellent location for winter passerine photography and members of the group enjoyed snapping photos of Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, and Black-capped Chickadee. Though most left after Ojibway Park, a couple intrepid birders continued on for one more stop at Memorial Woods across from Holiday Beach Conservation Area. After a fairly lengthy search, we ended up finding the Boreal Chickadee along the main trail where it fed close to the ground and even ventured out onto the trail within a few feet of us! Other highlights here included a flyover Sandhill Crane, a few Brown Creepers, and Golden-crowned Kinglet. It was a great way to end the day. Many thanks to all who attended and helped make it a fun and eventful outing. Jeremy Hatt