We (Steve Wolfe and I) took a drive around the Columbus metro area to look for ducks today. First spot was the Scioto River just south of 5th Avenue. The list of birds seen include: Lesser Scaup (xx) Red-breasted Merganser (3 male) Hooded Merganser (7 male, 4 female) Mallards (xx) Canada Goose (12) Snow Goose (11, white and colored morphs) Ring-necked duck (x) Ring-billed gulls (ca. 200) Common golden eye (x) Belted Kingfisher (1) Redhead duck (x) Next stop was the Scioto below Greenlawn Dam Lesser Scaup (x) Hooded Merganser (x) Mallard (xx) Common Goldeneye (x) Ring-necked Duck (x) Ring-billed Gull (xx) Canada Goose (xx) Bufflehead (x) Pickerington Pond Northen Pintail (1 male, 1 female) Wood Duck (1 male, 1 female) Lesser Scaup (x) Mallard (x) Canada Goose (xx) Carolina Chickadee Ring-neck Duck (xx) Turkey Vulture Crow Rock Pigeons (several hundred) American Kestrel (1) Redhead duck (xx) American black duck Hoover Reservoir below Sunbury dam Canada Goose Mallard American Robin Hooded Merganser Lesser Scaup Great Blue Heron (6) Ring-neck Duck Turkey Vulture Crow Ring-billed gull -- Andi Wolfe www.AndiWolfe.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]