I checked out the Deer Creek Reservoir this afternoon. The reservoir is as high as I've ever seen it. Vantage points were limited and it was brutally windy on the S end. Some of the rafts of ducks I never could really see well, but a large number of birds were present. It was more quantity than quality as far as rarities go, but I certainly could have overlooked something more interesting. Here are some of the birds present : Canada Goose - XXX Wood Duck - X Gadwall - X American Wigeon - XXX Am. Black Duck - XX Mallard - XXXX N Shoveler - XX N Pintail - XXX Green-winged Teal - XX Canvasback - XX Redhead - XX Ring-necked Duck - XXX L Scaup - XXX Bufflehead - X C Goldeneye - X Hooded Merganser - XX Red-br Merganser - XX Turkey Vulture - XX Killdeer - XX Ring-billed Gull - XXXX Herring Gull - X Red-winged Blackbird - XXX Rusty Blackbird - XX Common Grackle - XXX Bob Royse Robert Royse [log in to unmask] www.roysephotos.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]