I spent the afternoon yesterday birding areas nearby in eastern Mahoning Co.  Activity was quite good until the latest snowstorm arrived around 4:00 PM.  Roadside edges exposed by snow plows were like bird magnets in a number of spots.  I had the same experience at Mosquito WA a few days ago, too.  In Coitsville Twp. were: 195 Canada geese, 5 mallards (on a very small stream), sharp-shinned hawk, 3 red-shouldered hawks, 3 red-tailed hawks, Am. kestrel, n. flicker, 6 e. bluebirds, 7 Am. robins, a singing n. mockingbird, 4 e. towhees (my first ones this winter), 20 Am. tree sparrows, 3 song sparrows, 2 white-throated sparrows, and 20 dark-eyed juncos.  In adjacent northern Poland Twp. were 10 wild turkeys, an imm Cooper's hawk, and another e. towhee.  Then I went down to Lowellville, and checked the Mahoning R. from there to Struthers.  It held Canada geese, mallards, 2 buffleheads, 9 c. goldeneyes, 6 hooded mergansers, and pied-billed grebe.  I
 went down to Evans L. next, it was completely frozen with some ring-billed & herring gulls roosting on the ice.  The snow had hit hard by then, so I went over to take a quick look in Beaver Twp. at the lake by Mill Creek along Western Reserve Rd.  It still has a big open-water hole, and crammed into and around it were 650+ Canada geese.  I suppose there were other waterfowl too, but I only took a minute to look before heading home.  Craig Holt, Lowellville




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