Jim Redya or Marc Nolls have the final list and hopefully it will be on the Ottawa webpage soon. Most of the area and much of the lake front was frozen. There were about 55 species observed when I left but several were of note. 21 Snow Geese (mixed flock) observed along the regular trails to the north of the parking lot 1000+ Tundra Swans 23+ Trumpeter Swan 1 Mute Swan 1 Rough-legged Hawk (dark phase) 7+ Tree Swallow 2 Rusty Blackbird 6 Purple Finch Marc and I observed an adult male Tree Swallow flying north along the dikes NW of the parking lot about 10:00 AM. We could not relocate it after the initial sighting but it could not have gone far as almost everything in the area was frozen. After lunch, we were telling people at the visitor center about the sighting when Rebecca Hinkle informed us that she had 5 swallows over the pond out front in the morning which she felt were Tree Swallows. At 1:30 PM while showing a couple a pair of Bald Eagle going through courtship flight we observed 2 Tree Swallow flying high with the eagles behind the visitor center. Jim and Marc had 2 more swallows in the afternoon census on the northern part of the refuge. Try as we might, none were Cave Swallows. Where did they come from and why? -- H. Thomas Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]