I checked out the Deer Creek Reservoir (Fayette and Pickaway Counties) this afternoon. For the date there was a plain vanilla variety of birds present and numbers weren't impressive either. I didn't visit the wetlands south of the reservoir today, but they might have offered more interesting birding. The warm south winds of today weren't good for plopping down many birds. I scoped out most of the reservoir, but most birds were in the northern section. Birds noted today included : 1 Mallard 1 Green-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Ducks 3 Ruddy Ducks 6 Common Loons 3 Pied-billed Grebes 2 Horned Grebes 5 D-c Cormorants ~15 Great Blue Herons 1 Bald Eagle 4 Sandhill Cranes ~80 Killdeers 2 Greater Yellowlegs 14 Dunlins ~300 Bonaparte's Gulls ~500 Ring-billed Gulls several Herring Gulls Bob Royse Robert Royse [log in to unmask] www.roysephotos.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]