The highlight of today's count is the 1167 Ring-billed Gulls. This may well turn out to be the year's peak count. I have seen as many as 2,000 on the lake at one time. I see I have neglected to indicate that the lake is now about 55% open water. Cheers, Bob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:15 PM Subject: eBird Report - Cowan Lake , 3/10/10 To: [log in to unmask] Location: Cowan Lake Observation date: 3/10/10 Notes: 64F, Winds: calm, sky: bkn, lake level: +0.8', boats: 0 Number of species: 28 Canada Goose 50 Wood Duck 4 Gadwall 2 American Wigeon 20 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 207 Northern Shoveler 2 Northern Pintail 6 Green-winged Teal 14 Canvasback 14 Redhead 13 Ring-necked Duck 25 Lesser Scaup 20 Bufflehead 6 Common Goldeneye 1 Common Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 10 Common Loon 1 Bonaparte's Gull 8 Ring-billed Gull 1167 Herring Gull 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 American Crow 7 Carolina Chickadee 1 Song Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Robert D Powell Congress Farm Research Institute Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] http://rdp1710.wordpress.com Nulla dies sine aves ______________________________________________________________________ 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]