Started the day with a cup of coffee, looking out at my backyard feeders: WB Nuthatch 2 Cardinals 2 House Sparrows 40 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downey Woodpecker 2 Song Sparrow 1 Junco 3 Drove behind Fremont's Water Filtration Plant: Bald Eagle mature 1 Canada Geese 340+ Mallards 150+ Crow 2 Rock Doves 20 Starlings 20 Red-tail Hawk 1 Mourning Doves 2 Drove to Pickerel Creek WA: Bald Eagle 2 immatures Drove to Castalia Pond in Castalia, Ohio: Black Ducks 16 Gadwalls 70+ Mallards 80+ Am. Widgeon 4 Am. Shoveler 40+ Canada Geese 18 Drove to Old Bay Bridge: Common Goldeneye 2 (males) Tree Sparrows 5 Starlings 65+ Double-crested Cormorants -0- (month ago I counted 88 on the high tension wire platforms) Ring-billed Gull 33 Robert at CREATE A WILDLIFE FRIENDLY YARD site, the site for birders: http://wildlifefriendlylawn.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]