Lary Gara and I visited Metzger, Ferguson and Bresler reservoirs in Lima, and the Van Wert Reservoir today. Highlights were 525 Ruddy ducks at Metzger, a Tundra Swan at Bresler, and 20 or so American Pipits in a plowed field a few miles south east of Van Wert. The Pipits allowed great views, walking and feeding within 15 feet of the car. Metzger and Ferguson: Green-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Duck 2 Bufflehead 1 Common Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 525 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 4 American Coot 40 Bonaparte's Gull 6 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull 1 Bresler: Tundra Swan 1 Mallard 8 Lesser Scaup 37 Bufflehead 3 Common Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 20 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Horned Grebe 10 American Coot 90 Van Wert: Canada Goose 29 Gadwall 1 Mallard 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Ruddy Duck 67 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 9 Rick Asamoto Miamisburg ______________________________________________________________________ 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]