Began the day with cup of coffee and watching backyard feeders. Red- bellied woodpecker, 2 Downy WP, WB and RB Nuthatches, 5 Mourning doves, BC chickadees, Sharp-shinned hawk (Hides in fir tree to ambush the Mourning doves coming to the platform feeder), 2 Blue Jays, 8 Cardinals, Dark-eyed Juncos, 2 Tufted titmice, severa European Starlings, a lone Song sparrow, a dozen House sparrows, an 6 Am. Goldfinches. The Sharp-shin took a strike at a Cardinal but missed. Drove behind Fremont Filtration plant: saw 1 Great Blue Heron, 43 Mallards, 150 Canada Geese, hundreds of gulls (Herring & RB). Didn't see immature Bald Eagle, which is there practically all the time. Drove out Rt. 6 towards Pickerel Creek WA saw 4 Red-tail hawks and 1 Horned Lark. In the distance were 30 Swans flying towards Castalia and RestHave WA, but couldn't ID what kind. Robert ______________________________________________________________________ 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]