Took a tour around Sandusky Co. and noticed the Red-wing Blackbirds back in force and Killdeer showing up: Behind Fremont's Water Filtration Plant: 1 Mute Swan 12 Mallards 1 Great-blue Heron 23 Ring-billed Gulls 3 Common Mergansers 1 Hooded Merganser Little Portage WA: hundreds of Red-wing Blackbirds 3 Killdeer 3 Pintail Ducks 23 Mallard Ducks 4 Black Ducks 1 Adult Bald Eagle 67 Canada Geese 2 Red-tail Hawks 80 Ring-billed Gulls 20 Herring Gulls hundreds of European Starling 20 Common Grackles Visit my "Create Wildlife-Friendly Yards" Blog at: www.wildlifefriendlylawn.blogspot.com/ & scroll down right-margin to "HOT OFF THE PRESS: TODAY'S HEADLINES ABOUT WINTER BIRDS IN OHIO" ______________________________________________________________________ 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]