When the rain let up, late this afternoon, I drove over to Ladu Reservoir, to see if yesterday's activity had continued. No sandhill cranes but lots of ducks,. Ruddy Ducks 16 Gadwalls 10 + Common Mergansers 35 Hooded Mergansers 20 Northern Shovelers 4 Common Goldeneye 5 Buffleheads 3 Black Ducks 2 Mallards 50 plus Also 1 pied-billed grebe and at least 40 American coots The usual 100 + Canada Geese. A couple of Bonaparte's gulls, and the usual ring billed gulls. Ran into Bonnie Fish while there and she had seen 2 Bald Eagles. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]