Drove along the usual route. Drove behind Fremont's Water filtration plant then took Rt. 6 west out of Fremont towards Pickerel Creek WA. Turned left onto CR 265 and viewed the two private marshes on the left and newly- created marshes past the 90-degree turn to the left. Then, drove to Pickerel Creek. Saw huge flock Bonaparte's Gulls in corn-stubble field and more kept coming. Identified: 9 Robins 6 Pied-billed Grebes 4 Double-crested Cormorants 4 Great Blue Herons 2 Great Egrets 40 Canada Geese 2 Trumpeter Swans 23 Gadwalls 3 Am. Widgeon 33 Mallards 37 Blue-wing Teal 40 N. Shovelers 6 Green-wing Teal 3 Ring-neck Ducks 9 Greater Scaup 6 Lesser Scaup 3 Hooded Merganser 1 Bald Eagle-immature 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Am. Kestrel 3 Kildeer 8 Common Snipe- A big maybe,I'm brushing up on my Sanpipers!! 200+ Bonaparte's Gulls 44 Ring-billed Gulls 6 Rock Dove 5 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker- heard them calling 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 N. Flicker 3 Blue Jay 8 Crow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 100+ Starling 5 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 17 Dark-eyed Junco 4 Cardinal 14 Red-wing Blackbird 11 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds 3 House Finch 5 Am. Goldfinch John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887 I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]