Hello! While returning from Toledo to the Columbus area today, I briefly stopped off at the Upper Sandusky reservoir and Killdeer WA to check on waterfowl that might be present. At Upper Sandusky, birds observed included the following: Canada Goose ~185 (no cacklers) Ring-Necked Duck-2 pairs Ruddy Duck ~14 Great Blue Heron Killdeer At Killdeer, the only waterfowl observed were at Pond 27. Except for 3 Canada Geese at Pond 6, no waterfowl were observed at the other ponds (3 and 33), wetlands, or the upland reservoir in the area. I guess the birds all know where they are safe during hunting season as Pond 27 is in the wildlife refuge (non-hunting) portion of the area. As far as I could tell given the rainy overcast conditions and the fact that most of the birds were at the far (northern) end of the pond, there was nothing out of the ordinary but I observed the following birds at Pond 27: American Wigeon-numerous Green-Winged Teal-over 200 Osprey-3 American Black Duck ~6 Great Blue Heron ~35 American Coot-numerous in western half of pond Northern Pintail ~20 in western half of pond Wilson's Snipe ~25 feeding in mud flat on northern shore in eastern half of pond Mallard-several Killdeer-several Greater Yellowlegs ~12-14 Northern Shoveler-pair Gadwall-at least 2 Red-Tailed Hawk Rob Lowry Powell, Ohio **************Play online games for FREE at Games.com! All of your favorites, no registration required and great graphics – check it out! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211202682x1200689022/aol?redir= http://www.games.com?ncid=emlcntusgame00000001) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]