I was checking out the ponds at Old Reid Park in Springfield today for
ducks and stumbled on two Long-tailed Ducks.  Old Reid Park is on the
south side of Croft Road about 1/4 mile downstream of the dam at C.J.
Brown Reservoir/Buck Creek State Park. Photos of them are posted at the
photo gallery on the OOS forum here:
http://www.ohiobirds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1466#p1466

There have been good numbers of ducks there for several weeks.  It is a
great place to get close looks at Gadwall and Northern Shovelers in the
wintertime. (There have been 50-75 of each here every time I checked it
the last 2 weeks.) Besides those today, there were several hundred
Mallards and Canada Geese, 2 Black Ducks, a few Hooded Mergansers, and a
lone Ruddy Duck.

Also of note this week, I have seen a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk in
the area below the dam.  On Monday and Tuesday it was kiting in the wind
over the big prairie field along Overlook Drive (north of Croft Road),
and this morning I saw it fly over Old Reid Park and start hovering over
an adjacent brushy field.

Brian Menker
Dayton/Springfield


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