Shane Eggleston, Lee Gruber and I converged on Caesar Creek today to find 130 Snow Geese. Shane had the best view thanks to some hunters in a camouflaged boat who repeatedly flushed the birds in Shane's direction. He believes he saw one, possibly two Ross's Geese among them. When I saw them, they were about halfway between the North Pool boat ramp and the point at Harveysburg Road. They were too far away for close observation, but I got a picture of the flock in flight which allowed me to make a pretty accurate count (+/- 5). I do not believe these were the same birds I saw late Monday afternoon. That flock was larger and had a higher percentage of the "blue" geese in it. Larry Gara made a thorough search of the lake on Tuesday and found no white geese whatsoever. My theory is that there were two flocks and both were part of this big movement that has been reported from widely separated areas of the state for the last ten days. There were also ten Common Goldeneye at Caesar Creek beach, along with 296 Ring-billed Gulls. The ring-bills were all third winter/adult basic birds with the exception of one first-winter bird. This is a big increase over the ring-bill numbers of recent weeks. The ring-bill flock had been stable at about 40 for several weeks. On Monday, there were 80 birds at the beach. Perhaps colder weather up north is sending them down. Cheers, Bob -- Robert D Powell Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] Nulla dies sine linea ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]