I made a quick foray to Deer Creek State Park late yesterday afternoon. There was a constant drizzle and birds were few. I looked for the northern shrike from about 3:50 PM to 4:20 PM, but he apparently had enough sense to stay out of the rain. I did not check the dam area for the egret, nor did I see it or the pelican anywhere else. I did not spend much time looking. A fly-over flock of 35 SNOW GEESE seemed to be comprised of 18 white and 17 blue-phase. At the mouth of the drowned creek on Rt. 207 south of the marina and north of Crownover Mill Road, there were three COMMON GOLDENEYE and three HOODED MERGANSERS. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was hunting the fallow field at the northwest corner of Rt. 207 and Egypt Pike. Maps of all Ohio State Parks can be found from http://tinyurl.com/yaqtc6 Paul Gardner Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]