On November 30, I saw two Plegadis sp. ibis land in the wet area just east of Rt. 269 just as we pulled off of Route 2. They hovered and then landed just beyond the Phragmites. My husband and I got good looks at them but not enough to distinguish which species. What a surprise! The wind was very strong that day. We also saw Tundra Swans just to the west of 269 and about a dozen Ruddy Ducks at the old bridge. On the morning of December 2, I saw a northern shrike land in a tree near the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center parking lot. I also saw a few Hooded Mergansers at Magee. On December 3, back on South Bass, the following were seen in a drive around the island. We are finally starting to see waterfowl in larger numbers with the change in weather. Back Monument Bay Tundra Swans 40 Canada Geese xxx Mallards xxx Bufflehead xxx Scaup sp. xx Canvasback 2 PIB Harbor and Pond Belted Kingfisher 1 Great-Blue Heron 2 Double-crested Cormorants xx Bufflehead xx Ruddy Ducks 1 Hooded Merganser 5 Scaup sp. xx Canada Geese xx Mallards xx Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]