The "official" list for the day, without counts, was: Canada Goose Surf Scoter Mallard Black Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser Horned Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Bald Eagle (appear to be nesting pair) Merlin Red-tailed Hawk Black Vulture Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Belted Kingfisher American Crow Blue Jay Mourning Dove White-breasted Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet American Robin Northern Cardinal Dark-eyed Junco Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow American Goldfinch European Starling House Sparrow Andi *** On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A group of 5 went birding around Deer Creek Reservoir this morning. It was > cold and rainy at first and cold and less rainy later. Some of the best > birding of the day was during lunch at the lodge overlooking the lake. > There > was a merlin sitting on the top of an tree near the entrance. As we walked > in a mature bald eagle flew by the windows that overlook the lake. When we > sat down for at our table we saw a pair of common mergansers on the lake. > At > that point we started wondering why we had spent the morning out in the > rain. Here's the list of what we saw, to the best of my recollection... > > Canada Goose 25 > Gadwall 1 > American Wigeon 1 > American Black Duck 7 > Mallard 200 > Lesser Scaup 1 > Surf Scoter 1 > Hooded Merganser 30 > Common Merganser 2 > Red-breasted Merganser 10 > Pied-billed Grebe 1 > Horned Grebe 9 > Great Blue Heron 2 > Black Vulture 4 > Bald Eagle 2 > Red-tailed Hawk 3 > Merlin 1 > Bonaparte's Gull 2 > Ring-billed Gull 50 > Herring Gull 2 > Mourning Dove 2 > Belted Kingfisher 1 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 > Downy Woodpecker 2 > Blue Jay 2 > American Crow 50 > White-breasted Nuthatch 1 > Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 > American Robin 10 > European Starling 100 > Song Sparrow 1 > White-throated Sparrow 2 > Dark-eyed Junco 5 > Northern Cardinal 2 > House Sparrow 1 > > Steve Wolfe > Columbus > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > -- Andi Wolfe www.AndiWolfe.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]