Hi Everyone, It's good to be back birding again after several weeks away from it. I have been to Glacier Ridge Metro Park Wetlands section this week and had the privilege of observing some unidentified raptors (mostly greyish in color flying into the headwind and making little or no progress and finally settling into a tree to rest. Also, the rehydration of the "wetlands" brought Mallards and Canadian Geese by the dozens on Tuesday afternoon while today,only Canadian Geese were present. For Tuesday, I witnessed a noisy discussion between these two species about rights to the wetlands as well as witnessing a very impressive landing technique and form by the Canadian Geese which were just arriving as I was just getting out to the boardwalk area. Late last week I simultaneously witnessed two groups of turkey vultures each containing several dozen birds further up Rt.33 near Marysville.. Unfortunately, no interesting "lifer" species have been seen by me lately to report here.................... Gary Moon Cols.,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]