Cowan Lake is nearly frozen over. There is some open water beyond the spillway and at the East End where the creek runs into the lake. At the spillway I saw: 2 Pied-billed Grebes (some more grebes too far out to ID) 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - on a tree across the road, then flying East End: 5 SNIPES - they even looked very cold. Real Winter Cheers, Larry ______________________________________________________________________ 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]