Highlights of a windy and occasionally damp morning... Wellington Reservoir: American Coot >1000 Ruddy Duck >1000 Ring-necked Duck ~100 Redhead ~25 Canvasback 3 Bufflehead 3 Pied-billed Grebe ~10 Findley State Park: Reb-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 3 (all in a span of less than five minutes) Plus a Red-headed Woodpecker flyby on Rte. 58 near the Black River bridge Oberlin Reservoir: Horned Grebe 2 Ruddy Duck 50 Bufflehead 1 Herring Gull 4-500 Ring-billed Gull ~100 Great Black-backed Gull 10 Oberlin Airport (southwest corner) and adjacent fields: Ring-billed Gull 2000 Herring Gull 100 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Avon Lake Power: Horned Grebe 1 Red-breasted Mergansers 800 not many gulls The roads to Lorain Harbor boat launch ("Hot Waters") are blocked by construction - I'll try to find out Monday for how long. Cheers, Craig Caldwell, Westlake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]