Hello all, After work today I drove down to Rocky Fork SP to look for the Common Eiders that were reported earlier on this list. I was not able to locate them. The lake is still 90% frozen. The only open water I found was the marsh along Beldon Saur trail, the west end of the lake near the campground, the marsh near the campground, a small opening off of the north beach and a small area around the islands along East Shore Drive. 44 Species observed in 1.5 hours: Canada Goose Wood Duck American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle 2 sub-adult (did not see one on the nest today. (There was one there Saturday. It could have been lower in the nest today.) Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk American Kestrel American Coot Killdeer Wilson Snipe (one landed about 75 feet in front of me affording great views) Ring-billed Gulls Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Eastern Bluebird American Robin Starling Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle House Sparrow John Habig ______________________________________________________________________ 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]