This AM I got a call from Beth Mitchell who drove by Melvin Gravel pit and noticed some white geese, I was scheduled to accompany Bob Powell's Wilmington College Ornithology class and we decided to make Melvin our first stop. We hit the jackpot with: 18 White Snow Geese 15 Blue morph Snow Geese 6 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE 30 Ring-necked Ducks 2 Mallards 50 Canada Geese Most of the Snow Geese and the White-fronted took off while we were watching but 1 of each morph stayed with the Canadas At Caesar Creek there was very little 2 Ring-billed Gulls - in water beyond the flooded beach 2 Ring-billed Ducks " " " " " " 2 Downy Woodpeckers - at Visitor's Center 2 Titmouse 3 Blue Jays 6 Goldfinch 2 Lesser Scaup at the North Pool Very Happy Birder Cheers, Larry Gara ______________________________________________________________________ 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]