Today was windy and cold with snowflakes. I got a report from Annie Parker that she had 137 Tree Swallows on the electric wire outside her home near Chapman's Point on South Bass Island. When I got there midmorning, there were over 100 tree swallows working low over the calm water in the bay behind Perry's Victory with only a few left on the wires. Also present in a drive along the shore: Common Goldeneye xxx Scaup sp. xxx Bufflehead xx Red-breasted Mergansers xx Horned Grebe 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 In the pond by Ohio State University Wood Duck 18 Great Blue Heron 10 A pair of belted kingfishers have been back to the same nesting spot on the west shore of the island as last year. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]