I visited the Grand Lake St Mary's area, Van Wert and the Lima Reservoirs. Highlights were 42 Greater White-fronted Geese at the Mercer Wildlife Area (Mercer County), a White-winged Scoter (female) at the Van Wert Reservoir, and 4 Snow Buntings between Ferguson and Metzger reservoirs in Lima. Waterfowl seen today are listed below. At the Mercer Wildlife Area: Greater White-fronted Goose 42 Canada Goose Mallard Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Hooded Merganser The reservoir in Van Wert: Mallard 7 Gadwall 4 American Wigeon 4 Redhead 63 Ring-necked Duck 31 Greater Scaup 2 Lesser Scaup 51 White-winged Scoter 1 Bufflehead 1 Horned Grebe 5 Bressler Reservoir had 2-300 ducks which included scaup and Redhead, but otherwise they were too distant for me to ID. Ferguson and Metzger Reservoirs in Lima: American Black Duck 1 Mallard 3 Northern Shoveler 2 Canvasback 3 Redhead 382 Ring-necked Duck 37 Greater Scaup 1 Lesser Scaup 30 Scaup sp 180 Bufflehead 2 Hooded Merganser 3 Red-breasted Merganser 7 Ruddy Duck 2 Horned Grebe 5 Rick Asamoto Miamisburg ______________________________________________________________________ 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]