I was in Northwest Ohio this weekend.  Things were pretty slow, but I did find a few things.  I checked out Castalia Saturday morning and it was pretty slow.  I think there were only about 100 ducks there with 90% being mallards and shovelers.  There were single gadwall and widgeon and a handful of bufflehead and redheads and a lonely scaup.  There were a couple hundred geese, but they left shortly after I got there.  I did have a single snow goose and one cackling goose.  
 
The area around Magee-Ottawa was ice and snow covered so there were few waterfowl in that area.  I did have a few northern hariers and a couple rough-legged hawks.  I drove through Maumee Bay State Park and saw only a single red-tailed hawk and a few songbirds.   At Bayshore power plant there were quite a few ducks, but everything was pretty far out.  There were a lot of redheads, canvasback, and lesser scaup.  I did have a single long-tailed duck.  
 
On Sunday I birded the Ottawa NWR area again.  Still only a few waterfowl.  I did see a lot more horned larks flying over and in the fields and a few buntings and longspurs.  Not much else of note.
 
John Pogacnik                                     
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