Wednesday, Dec. 26 - 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. - An absolutely beautiful afternoon to bird! Great Miami River - Island Park to Sunwatch: Canada geese Mourning dove Pied-billed grebes Great blue herons Belted kingfishers Mallards Ring-billed gulls Red-tailed hawks Peregrine falcon (downtown) Hooded mergansers (m & f) - 40 total all along the river Song sparrow American robin House sparrow House finch European starlings Rock pigeons Ring-necked ducks (2m) - Stewart Street bridge area Lesser scaup (1m) - Stewart Street bridge area Black ducks - across from The Carillon American kestrel Red-winged blackbird (1m) - in bushes by DP&L substation Eastwood Lake: Ruddy ducks (m & f) - 7 Lesser scaup (2m, 1f) Common goldeneye - 1f American coots - 15 Belted kingfisher Huffman Metropark: Mallards Belted kingfisher Great blue heron Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]