Susan Jones and I (Karin Tanquist) spent 1.5 hours at midday looking for waterfowl on Lake Rockwell and Lake Pippen. Noted was the absence of Ring-necked duck (83 Ring-necked duck seen there on 12/5/09). We had some lovely close-ups of Hooded & Common Mergansers. 2 Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Canada goose Mallard 14--Black duck 30--Gadwall 18--Scaup sp (most likely Lesser) 1--Bufflehead 28--Hooded Merganser 62--Common Merganser 1--Red-tailed hawk Ring-billed Gull 1--Bald Eagle 1--Wilson's Snipe Karin Tanquist Peninsula OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]