As noted by Dave Collopy the gravel pit near Spring Valley WA has hundreds of ducks and geese. Today just before noon I saw 5 Greater White-fronted Geese among the hundreds of Canada geese. Among the variety of ducks there was a female White-winged Scoter. I could not locate the Cackling goose that Dave reported but many of the geese were partially obscurred. After lunch I was joined by Shane Egleston. There were many fewer geese present and we could not find the White-fronted geese. After scanning the ducks and geese for a while, 2-300 geese flew in. We then located the 5 White-fronted geese again. Shane then located one Cackling goose walking around by itself. A few minutes later Shane located 2 more small geese with their heads tucked. After several minutes they finally raised their heads and we could see the short bill and steeply angled forehead. Canada geese 600 Greater White-fronted geese 5 Cackling geese 3 White-winged scoter 1 Mallard 200 Redhead 12 Black ducks 20 Ring-necked ducks 15 Canvasback 7 Gadwall 20 Lesser Scaup 3 Scaup sp. 4 Bufflehead 8 American coot 60 Pied-billed grebe 3 Ring-billed gull 20 Herring gull 2 This inactive gravel pit is on the north side of Roxanna-New Burlington road just east of SR 42. Rick Asamoto Miamisburg ______________________________________________________________________ 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]