With Duck hunting season in full swing again this weekend, I wanted to see some ducks myself. So I Went out birding today, and the biggest news is that the Lazy White Pelican is still at Killdeer Plains W.A. off of ch.-68 in pond 27 eastern half, where its been for the past month or more. First time I saw him he'd been there a few weeks already I think, and that was by September 1. He was hunkered down and sleeping in the cold windy weather today. K.PWA list: Am White Pelican - 1 Am Widgeon - 40+ Woodduck - 10 Mallard - 10+ Gadwall - 10+ Lesser Scaup - 1 in abouve ground Resevoir Ruddy Duck - 2 same as above local Am Coot - 50+ Pied-billed Grebe - 10+ Can. Goose - 20 Trump. Swans - 2 of the introduced GBH - 3 Bald Eagle - 3 Red-tail hawk - 2 N. Harrier - 1 Bonaparte's Gull - 10 in resevoir Ringbilled Gull - 2 same as above White-crowned Sparrows - 10+ Next I hit Hardin Co./ Longbrake's wetlands to see what I could see, the wind made it really difficult to flush many sparrows and I guess the other herons and bitterns were laying low because of it too- I didn't see them. Did see lots of ducks, it does one's heart good to see so many ducks. list of estimates (def. underestemated, some are actual counts (the smaler#s): N. Pintail - 20 Am Widgeon - 40 Gadwall - 15 BW Teal - 100+ GW teal - some mixed in, but not many N. Shoveler - 30+ Am. Black Duck - 2 Mallard - 100+ Ruddy Ducks - 19 Ring-necked Duck - 4 Pied-billed Grebe - 5 Am Coot - 200 Can. Goose - 4 N. Harrier - 5 T.V. - 4 Horned Lark - 3 Am. Pippit - 4 Savannah Sparrow - 20ish Vesper Sparrow - 1 definate and another possible but didn't get good'nuf look Swamp Sparrow - 40+ Song Sparrow - 40+ White-crowned Sparrow - 20 Meadowlark - 2 I am forgetting some things, oh well, too lazy to get up and find my field list. That cold and wind takes it out of you, good thing I dressed warmly and wore my rain coat. Yesterday I explored the property of the Brown Family Envioro Center at Kenyon College. They have some great sparrow habitat and a great grassy perched wetland on Wolf Run that looks really promising, but it yielded no rarities, only about a bazillion Swamp Sparrows, I'd never seen so many before way up in the hundreds, every bird I looked at there was a Swamp Sparrow it seemed, and they were spread out into the other fields as well, not just the swampy area. There were also many Field Sparrows, White-crowns, Junco's, E. Towhees, White-throated, 1 lincoln's, Song - lots, Chipping, and the other neat birds that hang out around there like a Phoebe, Pileated Woodpecker,Red-bellied, Downies, and N. Flickers, both Kinglets, and ton's of Bluebirds. Check it out if you've never been there, sometime. Good birding Ben Warner ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]