I did not get a very early start this morning, but there were still a few birds about when I arrived at Englewood at 10:30 am. The lake at East Park was mostly thawed. Ring-billed gulls were the most abundant species, followed by Canada goose. Other water birds included red-breasted mergansers, hooded mergansers, mallard, great blue heron, coots, and lesser scaup. The park also yielded the following before noon: turkey vulture cardinal sandhill cranes hairy woodpecker downy woodpecker red-bellied woodpecker carolina chickadee white-breasted nuthatch american crow american robin song sparrow red-tailed hawk eastern phoebe tufted titmouse dark-eyed junco eastern bluebird ______________________________________________________________________ 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]