This morning while scouting for tomorrow's Kirtland Bird Club outing... Avon Lake Power: The ice edge is pretty far offshore, and so were the birds. The usual 3 gulls and small numbers of common goldeneye, red-breasted and common mergansers, lesser scaup, and surf scoter. Lorain Harbor (formerly "Hot Waters"): mostly open water, very few birds other than gulls, and only moderate numbers of them. Wellington Upground Reservoir (more or less in order of decreasing quantity): American coot, Canada geese, mallards, ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, redheads, lesser scaup, canvasback, American black ducks, greater scaup, bufflehead, northern pintail, common merganser, pied-billed grebe. Caley Reservation: Seven long-eared owls. Oberlin Reservoir (not many of anything, but a nice selection): Canada geese, mallard, black ducks, common and hooded mergansers, lesser scaup, ring-necked duck, pintail, canvasback, redhead. Craig Caldwell, Westlake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]