I was in Northwest Ohio over the last couple days and had a chance to do a little birding. Saturday was interesting. A lot of birds were moving ahead of the the front that passed through last night. I saw a lot of horned larks, American crows, and snow buntings migrating along the lakeshore yesterday. It seemed that horned larks were everywhere. I also saw a number of high flying Canada goose flocks that were heading north over the lake. At Metzger Marsh I saw a group of 4 red-tailed hawks in a small group that appeared to be migrating. I also had 1 killdeer. I'd imagine its a little surprised today. I probably saw just under 1,000 snow buntings yesterday. A pretty lofty total until I was leaving the area this morning and in a 4 mile stretch of roads in southwest Ottawa County I had in excess of 5,000 snow buntings, including one flock of over 2,000 birds. One flock also had about 30 Lapland longspurs. There were not many blackbirds or ducks moving yesterday. I did run into a few flocks of redheads, ring-necked ducks, scaup, and northern pintail. Some of the birds of note on Saturday was a ROSS'S GOOSE along Howard Road in Lucas County. Single CACKLING GOOSE and GREATER WHITE FRONTED GOOSE along Krause Rod just west of Ottawa NWR. Also in that area were 600-700 tundra swans. There was a NORTHERN SHRIKE laong the causeway at Magee Marsh. At East Harbor there was a lesser black-backed gull and a large black-backed gull with bright yellow legs. More on this bird later. Today, there were snow buntings and horned larks everywhere. I saw very few geese or swans in the air today. I think this was due to the high wind. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]