This continues to be, as Bob Royce reported, a good spot for healthy numbers of waterfowl. I believe that these numbers are beginning to decline a bit, however. Most of the lower portion of the lake was still ice-covered today, except one small bay across from the beach. Most of the action was in the upper part of the lake, best visible from an access area off SR 207, south of the marina. I was not able to visit the Egypt Pike wetlands Bob mentioned in the two hours I was able to spend this morning. On the reservoir, there were (very rough estimates on numbers): Mallard - several thousand Am. Wigeon - similar #s N. Pintail - ~500 Green-winged Teal - 50-100+ Gadwall - <10 noted Am. Black Duck - 50-100 Ring-necked Duck - 500-1000 Redhead - app.500 Lesser Scaup - app. 500 (no Greaters noted) Canvasback - <10 Bufflehead - 2-4 Hooded Merganser - 100-300 Red-breasted Merganser - 100-200 Common Merganser - a few Common Goldeneye - 4 Ruddy Duck - 5-10 Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Horned Grebe - 10-20 (beginning to molt - I did double-takes on a few) Canada Goose 300-500 Tundra Swan - 26 (flew in as I was leaving) Ring-billed Gull - ~500 Happy Birding! Eric Reiner - Ashville, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]