I took a quick look from several vantage points in the Deer Creek Reservoir this evening. Some of the birds noted included : 2 Snow Geese (both white phase) ~15 Lesser Scaup 1 Long-tailed Duck ~10 Hooded Mergansers ~20 Ruddy Ducks ~25 Great Blue Herons ~200 Killdeers 2 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Pectoral Sandpipers ~200 Dunlins ~400 Bonaparte's Gulls ~300 Ring-billed Gulls The Oldsquaw was a a beautiful male in perfect basic plumage. I have seen them there on several occasions, but usually in December or January, never this early. I didn't have time to look in the fields or wetlands of the wildlife area, but Dark-eyed Juncos around the reservoir were a conspicuous addition to the sparrows since last week. Bob Royse, Columbus Robert Royse [log in to unmask] www.roysephotos.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]