Yesterday, my wife, Paula, and I drove to Columbus to attend the Black Swamp Bird Observatory Annual meeting. Along the way we stopped at Killdeer Plains and Deer Creek State Park. My goal was to hopefully see a pelican in February. I had heard that the White Pelican might still be at Deer Creek State Park. I didn't find it, so I assume it has departed. However, we did see a beautiful, breeding plumage male Long-tailed Duck in one of the three small areas of open water. We also observed 5 Black Vultures and a very cold-looking Killdeer in the area. For the trip we had 50 species and didn't get out of the car. Highlights: Killdeer Plains: Tundra Swan (40+) Trumpeter Swan (2) Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk (1 immature) Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk (2 light phase) American Kestrel Ring-necked Pheasant Rusty Blackbird Lapland Longspur Deer Creek State Park Black Vulture(5) Killdeer (along SR 207) Pied-billed Grebe (6+) American Coot (6+) American Black Duck Redhead Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Long-tailed Duck (1 male) Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Tom Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]