My husband and I birded Thursday and Friday along the Ohio River. On Thursday, there were good numbers from the Pike Island Dam up to Rush Run with the best viewing north of the marina along "old" Route 7. This portion of old 7 has little traffic and is very near to the river. We were disappointed to NOT see a grebe but saw the following:

Buffleheads -  many
Canvasbacks
Redheads - just a few but side by side with canvasbacks
Ring Neck Ducks - just a few
White Wing Scoters - not as many as two weeks ago
Scaup - still present in good numbers - I don't feel confidant enough to name lesser or greater

I'm almost certain the last bird we saw was an American Kestrel carrying and consuming his dinner. I never got a front view, looking at him from the back mostly.

At the marina itself many, many gulls remain, mostly ring billed with a few juvenile herring gulls
three great blue herons

On Friday we started down the WV side and the Short Creek area at the Brooke/Ohio County line was productive. There is parking here and we walked along the Brooke Pioneer Trail. We had a common merganser and two cooperative male red breasted mergansers who swam along close to shore. Two wood ducks, male and female,  flew in as we were leaving. We drove south to the Hannibal Locks and Dam. The birds here were fewer and further away but we did add an American Coot and Common Goldeneye. 

Becky Szabo 
Follansbee, Brooke County, WV

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