Hello Birders, Spring teasing is in the air over west central Ohio!! Grand Lake St Marys is hosting many species of waterfowl! Including: Redbreasted Mergansers Common Mergs Hooded Mergs Common Loons - as many as 8-10 Northern Shovelers Buffleheads L Scaup Coot XXXXX Bluewing Teal Herring Gulls XXXXX and the Ringbills have returned in #'s Great Blue Herons are staking claim to nests Killdeer XXX We heard a Meadowlark! Robins in great numbers all around the Lake The Roughlegged Hawk is still hanging around Redtails are abundant Kestrels Sandhill cranes flew over -- 20 Grebes - Horned, Eared and Pied Billed Big #'s for all 3 Oh, and the Double Crested Cormorants have returned ;-( Great Horned Owl has owlets! Bald Eagle nests - one has hatched (1 so far) and the other continues to incubate TVs have found the Mayors home again. And McDonald's in Celina. At our feeders: DE Juncos AGF HF H SP T SP DWP Grackles XXX Robins M Doves Cooper's Hawk Kestrel Can Spring be far behind?? I'm certain I forgot some species - but you get the idea!! Enjoy the last burst or blast of winter!! Happy Easter, Jill Bowers ______________________________________________________________________ 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]