This morning while scouting for tomorrow's Kirtland Bird Club outing...

  Avon Lake Power:  The ice edge is pretty far offshore, and so were the birds.  The usual 3 gulls and small numbers of common goldeneye, red-breasted and common mergansers, lesser scaup, and surf scoter.

  Lorain Harbor (formerly "Hot Waters"):  mostly open water, very few birds other than gulls, and only moderate numbers of them.

  Wellington Upground Reservoir (more or less in order of decreasing quantity):  American coot, Canada geese, mallards, ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, redheads, lesser scaup, canvasback, American black ducks, greater scaup, bufflehead, northern pintail, common merganser, pied-billed grebe.

  Caley Reservation:  Seven long-eared owls.

  Oberlin Reservoir (not many of anything, but a nice selection):  Canada geese, mallard, black ducks, common and hooded mergansers, lesser scaup, ring-necked duck, pintail, canvasback, redhead.

  Craig Caldwell,
  Westlake

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