This evening from 5:45 until dark I birded the southern portion of Delaware Wildlife Area (Delaware County). Delaware Reservoir and the surrounding marshes were loaded with waterfowl. 1350 Ring-necked Duck 517 Lesser Scaup 340 Redhead 78 Red-breasted Merganser 70 Canada Goose 40 Mallard 26 American Wigeon 22 Gadwall 20 Canvasback 20 Hooded Merganser 12 Bufflehead 8 American Black Duck 7 Wood Duck 7 Northern Shoveler 6 Ruddy Duck 5 Northern Pintail 5 Common Goldeneye 4 Green-winged Teal 4 Greater Scaup 1 Common Merganser Other birds: 18 Horned Grebe 6 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 27 American Coot 2 Killdeer 5 American Woodcock 2 Bonaparte's Gull 1800 Ring-billed Gull 1250 Red-winged Blackbird (all blackbirds came to roost at Pond 1B) 2 Rusty Blackbird 800 Common Grackle 400 Brown-headed Cowbird ~Jack Stenger Ohio Wesleyan University --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]