Sent on behalf of John Lennon, Columbus Ohio: The Eurasian wigeon was still there yesterday, a couple hours after the original posting, but took some work to find. Saying that TJ Evans park is not well marked is an understatement, but the directions were very good. When I arrived, the park was empty, except for an older fellow reading a paper in his car. I tried an overlook and saw a variety of ducks, but no wigeon, so I traipsed through the snow, which wasn't easy going. About halfway along the open water, I looked back to see if the wigeon were in the corner under the overlook. They were not, but there were several people on the overlook, and I knew I was being cursed because I was driving the birds away from them. I am sorry about that. Had I known anyone else was there, I'd have taken a different route. As I moved along, I did see a nice variety of ducks - maybe ten redheads, several canvasback, one coot, half a dozen ringnecks, several hooded mergansers and three American wigeon, plus lots of Canada geese and mallards. I was about to give up, but right at the end of the pond, which doglegs off a little to the right as you look at it from the overlook, was a lone Eurasian wigeon, against the bank. Had I been walking on grass, I would probably have missed it, but I think the crunching of the snow spooked it out from the bank. It joined half a dozen of those domestic geese that look like greater white fronteds and started swimming back towards the overlook. However, when I got back to the overlook, concerned that my tires had been slit and fearful I might be beaten to death with spotting scopes, they had not seen it, so it must have veered off into hiding again. And it was a beautiful bird, and as usual, the book doesn't do it justice. The patch on its head was a richer gold and it had a rosey cast to the darker feathers on the body. Anyway, it seemed a little shy, might be out of sight and you may want to wear boots, if not cross country skis. The spotted towhee was also seen at the Miller's feeder shortly before five, but I was late getting there because of the wigeon detour and missed that one. The Millers were very accommodating and were bringing people into their living room to watch the feeder. They seemed proud that their bird had made the internet, and were surprised that 92 people had shown up Saturday, although none of their neighbors had come over. They said shortly after seven am or shortly before five pm seemed to be the best times. John Lennon Franklin Cty ______________________________________________________________________ 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]