The warm weather and strong winds today brought lots of Turkey Vultures to South Bass Island as well as my first Tree Swallow for the season! There was open water last night to the north of Perry's Victory memorial where there were over 250 Red-breasted Mergansers mixed with Common Goldeneyes and a few Buffleheads. Open water over the reef in the Bay held large numbers of Scaup and a few Canvasback. Hooded Mergansers were in the pond as well as several Great-Blue Herons. John Dodge found two Eastern Meadowlarks at the airport on Friday and Val Kowalski has reported a Brown Thrasher on the ground by her feeder as well. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]