East Fork State Park, Clermont Co. Got there around 4:30pm. Decided to stay until dark to see waterfowl coming in. Come in they did. I don't know how Bob Foppe does it - with XX,XXX numbers of geese and hundreds of ducks coming in. Numbers are only given for ones that stick out. There was more waterfowl than I have ever seen in one spot away from Lake Erie. The SANDHILL CRANE came in with the thousands of geese. It landed on the ice and stood there for a few minutes and then took off to the west not to come back. The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE came in with the Canadas. It stayed out on the ice in the middle of the lake. There may have been another one, but it was too dark by the time I found it. The BLUE PHASE SNOW GOOSE came in with the geese also. It was hard to scan through the thousands of birds. Also, many different sizes and shapes of Canadas. I think it would have been easier to pick out a small one with fewer. Birds were still coming in as I was leaving. Also, quite a few Herring Gulls were about. Greater White-fronted Goose 1, Snow Goose 1, Canada Goose 10,000, American Wigeon 6, American Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser 6, Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe 1, Great Blue Heron 2, Red-tailed Hawk 1, American Coot, Sandhill Crane 1, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Red-headed Woodpecker 1, Red-bellied Woodpecker, American Crow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, American Robin, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal -- Donald Morse Jr. New Richmond, OH http://users.adelphia.net/~morsedr/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]