Back to the Deer Creek Reservoir again today, Nov. 6. It has only been 2 days since I was last there without any N winds, but things change quickly there anyway. Today's tally from scoping out the same areas as usual included : 1 Mallard ~30 Ring-necked Ducks ~10 Hooded Mergansers ~10 Ruddy Ducks 7 Common Loons ~25 Pied-billed Grebes ~15 Horned Grebe 1 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN ~10 D-c Cormorants ~65 Am. Coots 268 Killdeers (counted) 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 24 Dunlins 1 Wilson's Snipe ~1200 Bonaparte's Gulls ~600 Ring-billed Gulls Herring Gulls (several) Passerine highlights included ~25 Rusty Blackbirds. Bob Royse Robert Royse [log in to unmask] www.roysephotos.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]