This was going to be my Northern Reservoirs report as I also took in Willard, New London, and Wellington the day before but those figures are in a different notebook (nothing unusual; a good number of RBMergs from New London and good scaup numbers from Willard). Thur. morning 8:00 am along Rt. 224 just out of Tiffin(at TR 25), 4 Great Egrets beating NE into a brisk wind seemed odd. Fostoria Reservoirs rarely amount to much for me, and this day was no different. Combined tally for Lake LeComte and Veteran's Memorial ... Mute Swan - 1 Lesser Scaup - 47 Bufflehead - 13 Red-breasted Merganser - 77 Bonaparte's Gull - 21 still I like to cover them when visiting Findlay as they help me put the latter numbers into context. Findlay Reservoirs 1&2 American Wigeon - 4 Lesser Scaup - 85 Bufflehead - 30 Red-breasted Merganser - 560 Ruddy Duck - 14 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Horned Grebe - 11 Common Loon - 27 Bald Eagle - 1 immature American Coot - 3 Killdeer - 2 Bonaparte's Gull - 750 Ring-billed Gull - 150 Herring Gull - 15 later headed down to southern OH stopped on Rt 104 in Franklin Co. to watch a pair of Cooper's Hawk in courtship flight (near the SW Compost plant) only to have a Gray Catbird pop up in the fence row next to the car. cheers Vic Fazio Tiffin OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]