On 10/27/08 my father and I saw the following: Driving between and around the back roads between the 2 counties- numerous flocks of Horned Larks Red Tail Hawks-7 TV-2 Kestrels-4 Pigeon-1 Coopers-1 Robins-250 Many flocks of Starlings but no Red Winged Blackbirds Paulding Ponds near Black Swamp Nature Preserve Mallards-12 Cedar Waxwings-2 Yellow Rumps-30 Downey-2 Carolina Wren-1 Goldfinches- 45 Doves- 6 Song Sparrows-3 Van Wert Reservoir American Pipits-150+ Between Reservoir 1 and 2 on the road and in field Ruddy Ducks-38 Coots-24 Lesser Scaup-8 Grebe-2 Mallards 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]