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Heartened by all the reports yesterday, I ran a "Tour de Quarries", focusing on the 3 clusters of old rockpits along the Scioto River west & south of Columbus.  I started at the Greenlawn dam, then went down to Haul Rd, visiting the ponds both south & north of St. 104, as well as nearby Hart Rd Quarry and the Great Southern Quarry.  Then I went south to the quarries around St. 317 and Lockbourne, in Hamilton Township.  Finally, I came back northwest to visit Watermark Pond, MarbleCliff, Hidden Lakes, and the Campbell Quarry.  Today was not as bird-filled as yesterday.  So much open water, so few waterbirds.  But I did find some neat things, including

Swans - Haul Rd had 4 Mutes, while Hart Rd had 1 Mute and 10 Tundra.  One of the 317 quarries had another 10 Tundra Swans.
Dabblers - little other than Mallards & Black Ducks, and no great #s of either
Divers - 4 Ring-necked Ducks were at Watermark Lake
Scoters - 4 subadult Surf Scoters were on the quarry lake behind Great Southern Shopping Center, almost the only birds there
Grebes - no Western or even Horned anywhere, but plenty of Pied-billeds, topped by 4 at Watermark
Cormorants - widespread, but the only large group was 70 above Greenlawn dam
Coots - a flock of 30 have moved onto Watermark Lake; another 10 were at the Hart Rd quarry
Great Egrets - still 5 of them were toughing it out in the cold & high water in the bay above the Greenlawn dam
Bald Eagle - only 1, an adult at one of the St. 317 Quarries, probably one of the Shadeville nesters
Gulls - only Ring-bills.  They were common, but not abundant, with no flock greater than 60.
Starlings - the only landbird worth reporting, because of huge flocks at Greenlawn Ave and down in Lockbourne.

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