It was fairly quiet, but beautiful out. The gulls were very cooperative as was the lone DCCormorant. The only touch of frustration was that from the beach/north pool area the Common Loon was minuscule and was barely identifiable... Canada Goose 5 Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 American Kestrel 1 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 47 Herring Gull 7 Downy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 1 American Robin 2 White-throated Sparrow 15 Northern Cardinal 2 All in all, it was a good day. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day, too. Phil --------------------- Philip M. Ware [log in to unmask] http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.asp?mem=117474 http://www.onemodelplace.com/member.cfm?P_ID=79253 --------------------- "I've never been so insulted in all my life." "It's early, yet." - G. Marx. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ______________________________________________________________________ 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]