I have posted a new thread concerning the cormorant issue on the OOS Forum (under Conservation), deeming it to be an appropriate venue.

I have missed the Blizzard of '08, being in southern California on business this week. But I have enjoyed the listserv buzz about feeder activity and yard birds.

Last Wednesday (3/5), on my way to the Columbus airport and following the considerable flooding of earlier in the week. I was driving westward on Route 40 through the rolling morainal landforms east of Hebron. One kettle depression in a field on the south side of the road often floods in the late winter/early spring, and sometimes it holds migratory waterfowl. That afternoon there were (predictably) 6 Canada geese, but also 5 ring-necked ducks (3 drakes, 2 hens,) a new year bird for me.

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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