I have posted a new thread concerning the cormorant issue on the OOS Forum (under Conservation), deeming it to be an appropriate venue. I have missed the Blizzard of '08, being in southern California on business this week. But I have enjoyed the listserv buzz about feeder activity and yard birds. Last Wednesday (3/5), on my way to the Columbus airport and following the considerable flooding of earlier in the week. I was driving westward on Route 40 through the rolling morainal landforms east of Hebron. One kettle depression in a field on the south side of the road often floods in the late winter/early spring, and sometimes it holds migratory waterfowl. That afternoon there were (predictably) 6 Canada geese, but also 5 ring-necked ducks (3 drakes, 2 hens,) a new year bird for me. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]