Saturday, Dec. 20 - 11 a.m. Well, the first stage of the revamping of the pond is done, and there is water in the main pond once again ! And water means ducks ! Canada geese - many, many Mallards - many, many Black ducks - 15 Gadwalls - 3 Northern pintails - 9 Green-winged teal - 2 Ring-billed gulls - 12 Great blue herons - 15 Pileated, red-bellied, downy, flicker woodpeckers Yellow-rumped warbler Robins - hundreds and hundreds European starlings - huge flock White-breasted nuthatch Carolina chickadee Dark-eyed juncos - 30+ Tree sparrows - 30+ Northern cardinals White-throated sparrow Bluejay Brown thrasher And, saving the best for last--a barred owl sitting on a branch over the road as you enter the park ! Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]