Today's complete list (46 species), specialties in caps: COMMON LOON (pair just north of bridge Pied-billed Grebe HORNED GREBE (pair at close range at Area N, Galena) Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Wild? Domestic Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard* BUFFLEHEAD (4 close to Loons) OSPREY (pair at Hoover Mudflats boardwalk) Cooper's Hawk (being chased by RW Blackbirds H.Meadows Red-tailed Hawk American Coot (lots) Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Rock Dove Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow (lots) Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Field Sparrow Song Sparrow SWAMP SPARROW (at Mudhen) Dark-eyed Junco (just one) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Plus 1 deer, 1 groundhog, and lots of turtles *Below the dam, there was an unusual Mallard with the black/iridescent green head AND neck and breast. The rest was jet black. Does anyone know how they get to be these unusual colors? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL ______________________________________________________________________ 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]