At a busy city intersection at rush hour, right next to the road on the grass, a male and female mallard were floating around on what amounted to a deep puddle from snow melt. It was on the Chagrin exit from I-271 in Beachwood. Multiple lanes of heavy traffic (and city) all around, and they were having the time of their lives. === To post something more standard, while I'm at it - - Yesterday at NASA Glenn, next to the Cleveland airport, ten minutes near a field netted me: - Junco - 1 - Song sparrows - 2 - Killdeer - 1 or 2 (Killdeer are a ubiquitous sound at NASA all thru bird season. This was the first I heard this year.) - Red-winged blackbirds - 3 - Robins - flock of 7-8 - Starlings - 12 Linda ______________________________________________________________________ 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]