This afternoon a Northern Shrike was present at the end of road, Wildlife Road 10, Delaware Wildlife Area. Take Route 23 north ten miles from Delaware, go east on 229 past shooting range, south on W10 to end. Search brush piles and hedgerows. Flooding is blocking access to many observation areas around the resevoir. Canvasback (7), Hooded Mergs. (13), Red-breasted Mergs.(2), Ring-necked Ducks (3), A. Black Ducks (2), and Pied-billed Grebes (2), plu the usual suspects were scattered around the lake. No Rusty Blackbirds found. Tom Bain Central Ohio Clayey Till Plain ______________________________________________________________________ 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]