Although today is Wed. August 2nd., this recording is from last Thursday. Drove east out of Fremont on Rt. 6 to Pickerel Creek WA, then the Castalia Pond in Castalia, Ohio. At Racoon Creek on Rt. 6 I turned onto CR 265. After several hundred feet, on the left there are two large wetland private marshes created. After checking out the marshes there, continued along CR 265 for a half mile, then road veers 90-degrees to the left. Newly-created marsh about a half mile past the turn to the left. Saw dozens of my favorite ducks there: Dozens of Pintails and over 40+ GW Teal! Then, checked out Pickerel Creek. Here's the list from these three spots: Canada geese- 79 Bufflehead- 8 Ring-billed gulls- 1,004 Canvasback- 7 Mallards- 120 Tundra Swan- 4(Difficult to identify positively through marsh grass so didn't eye yellow eye spot at base of bill. One had neck band labeled M70) Great Blue Heron- 4 Ring-necked duck- 60 Black duck- 8 N. Shoveler- 45 N. Pintail- 32 Blue-wing teal- 7 Green-wing teal- over 40+ Hooded Merganser- 9 Redhead duck- 16 Lesser Scaup- 19 Bald Eagle(immature)- 8 Bald Eagle (adult)- 2 Red-tail hawk- 4 Kestrel-3 Black Vulture- dozens Turkey Vulture- dozens N. Harrier- 2 Gadwall- 21 Wood Duck- 3 Kildeer- 2 Rock dove- 4 Mourning dove- 3 Belted Kingfisher- 1 Tree sparrow- 7 Blue jay- 2 Am. Crow- dozens Horned lark- dozens Black-capped chickadee- 3 Tufted Titmouse- 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch- 3 White-breasted Nuthatch- 2 Am. Robin- dozens Starlings- dozens Field sparrow- 3 Song sparrow- 2 Swamp sparrow- (heard one call) Dark-eyed junco- 8 Cardinal- 7 Red-winged blackbird- hundreds Common grackle- hundreds Brown-headed cowbird- 2 House Finch- 4 Am. Goldfinch- 6 House Sparrow- 11 Downy Woodpecker- 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker- 1 Double-crested cormorant- 4 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]