Yesterday we found the black-crowned night-heron roost on the Olentangy River across from OSU's Drake Union has reassembled. Counted three immature birds plus thirteen adults, one looking like a subadult actually. It would be interesting to know where they spend the breeding season. The OSU campus was spookily deserted. Before long everything except the sacred tracts of athletic fields will be paved or built up. Alum Ck SP was closed, but a scan across from the beach found a common loon, hooded merganser, ruddy ducks, horned grebes, and some Bonaparte's gulls. Upper Hoover Res had a changing review of waterfowl, with mallards, pintails, gadwalls, scaup sp up by the boardwalk. Some of the Canadas were wild ones, as evidenced by their behavior and the occasional orange neck-collar from the James Bay population. Cheers to all, Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]