Greetings! Today, Brad Sparks and I spent a good chunk of the morning in Wood County, looking for the Northern Shrike that had been reported along Freyman Road just SW of Cygnet. After a while spent searching, we did finally find the shrike in some bushy habitat north of Freyman Road between Liberty Hi and Wingston roads. In keeping with the letter S theme, we also had a large flock of about 30 Pine Siskins on the multi-purpose path just west of Rudolph road and south of Freyman. Also, we observed through spotting scopes a high-flying flock of Snow Geese, estimated at 75 in number. The majority were blue-morph geese, at least 60% of the total flock. The birds were flying high in the air and headed west when we spotted them. To get to the general area of the shrike, take I-75 to the Cygnet exit, take Cygnet road west, turn south at Rudolph, and west at Freyman. Start looking in the tops of the shrubs and hawthorns along the road. Keep an ear out for the siskins - they were noisy. After spending a couple hours in Wood County, we headed south to check out some reservoirs, and the birding goodness fell off tremendously. At Findlay Reservoir, we had 2 Common Loons, a Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Eared Grebes, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, and the usual gulls. The Lima reservoirs had about eight hundred Ruddy Ducks but little else in the way of waterfowl. Bonaparte's Gulls were present as well as the usual Ring-billed Gulls. Grand Lake St. Mary was nearly lifeless, with a few Mallards, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gulls, and Bonaparte's Gulls. Andy Sewell Columbus, Ohio Wood County List: Number of species: 32 Snow Goose 75 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 Rock Pigeon 2 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Northern Shrike 1 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 6 Horned Lark 12 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin 14 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 55 American Pipit 45 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 American Tree Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 12 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 10 Northern Cardinal 3 Eastern Meadowlark 2 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 30 American Goldfinch 25 House Sparrow 6 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org <http://ebird.org> ) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]