Today I had good luck again in eastern Mahoning Co. First I visited Evans L. It has little ice. Plenty of waterbirds: Canada geese, 50 mallards, 9 gadwall, 2 n. pintails, 6 n. shovelers, 3 lesser scaup, 3 buffleheads, c. goldeneye, 130 hooded mergansers, 2 common mergansers, 250 ruddy ducks, common loon, horned grebe, pied-billed grebes, 40 Am. coots, 5 Bonaparte's gulls, 400+ ring-billed gulls, and 75 herring gulls. Next stop down at Pine L. Here I was unpleasantly surprised to find almost all water frozen. The one big open spot had a nice concentration of fowl: 200 Canada geese, 2 "blue" snow geese, 21 tundra swans, 30 mallards, Am. black ducks, and 5 hooded mergansers. Also in the area were a bald eagle, more ring-billed gulls, 4 herring gulls, and hairy woodpecker. Between these two lakes there were at least 500 Am. crows; hundreds more are a conspicuous sight in Poland Twp. every day now. There is a large landfill/dump in
southern Poland Twp. which attracts good numbers of ring-billed gulls and crows. I think I'm starting to get a handle on their local movements around here. I've seen hundreds of crows in Struthers, Boardman, and Coitsville before too, so I have to wonder how many are in this part of Mahoning Co. Around home here in Poland Twp. the last couple days I managed to find red-tailed hawks, yellow-bellied sapsucker, n. flicker, red-bellied woodpeckers, dark-eyed juncos, Am. tree sparrows, song sparrows, white-throated sparrows, brown-headed cowbirds, and Am. goldfinches. I didn't see a single robin today. Later, Craig
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