Gary Meszaros called to say he'd seen some phenomenal numbers of waterfowl moving in the NW marshes today. Places like Toussaint, Little Portage, and Metzger were relatively quiet, but he hit the mother lode at Pickerel Creek, where among 5-10,000 ducks he had 1000 Am. wigeons and 3-400 pintails. He had ~600 tundra swans there (plus three rough-legged hawks), and another ~400 at Ottawa NWR. These birds are hot to trot, and may ride this coming Gulf front north, but for the time being their numbers are impressive. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]