Greetings all, The wife and I ventured south this AM to do some birding at the Van Wert reservoirs (DeLorme 44B3 - just south of Van Wert). This was the first time we had been down there and was it worth it! Upon arriving (~11:30 AM) at the northernmost of the two reservoirs (i.e. the one nearest the Van Wert hospital) we were greated with a decent sized flock of Canada Geese, in and amongst them was a small group of four CACKLING GEESE - a life bird for both of us! Here are the rough numbers: Canada Goose - XXX CACKLING GOOSE - 4 Mallard - XX American Black Duck ~15 American Wigeon - 2 Common Goldeneye - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 4 All of the above birds were seen on the aforementioned reservoir. The other reservoir held no birds at first, but before we left most everything took flight from the little reservoir. The geese settled back down in the same reservoir, but most of the ducks seemed to be circling the south reservoir. Thanks for reading and good luck to any birders on the search for these little guys! - Scott and Carrie Myers, Paulding, Ohio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]