It is a great time to get out to see waterfowl! This time of year they are going through their courtships, throwing their heads back, whistling, and showing off their stuff! The Toussaint Wildlife Area is a little known area in the Lake Erie Marsh region. It had a great diversity of waterfowl this morning. Thirteen species including Trumpeter Swans, Canada Geese, Wood Duck, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Common Merganser, and Hooded Merganser. Nonwaterfowl related, I saw and heard a Wilson's Snipe. The first for me for the year! For those of you shy on your waterfowl ID, there is a great opportunity at a sweet price to learn your waterfowl next Saturday morning in Port Clinton presented by Kenn Kaufman with the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. For more information on the weekend activities check out www.bsbobird.org <http://www.bsbobird.org/> . Enjoy the season, Julie Shieldcastle Conservation Director Black Swamp Bird Observatory 13551 W. SR 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]