Greetings, The one good thing about the partial thaw is that, on these lakes at least, the waterfowl all end up in one place. Now, if those thawed spots weren't 75+ yards out... :) Had some gorgeous breeding plumage ramping up in the Herrings and Com. Mergansers. Location: Eastwood Metropark Common Goldeneye 25 Hooded Merganser 2 Great Blue Heron 31 American Kestrel 1 Ring-billed Gull 27 Herring Gull 12 Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Dark-eyed Junco 8 Location: Huffman Metropark Mallard 12 Hooded Merganser 2 Common Merganser 8 Great Horned Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Savannah Sparrow 1 The owl was roughly 10 yards off the road, just past the first Huffman pulloff. Would have had a *fantastic* photo opp had it not flushed as a car with an excruciatingly loud stereo passed. Darn. Ah, well. Peace, 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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]