The Darke County Birders drove their annual Darke Duck Drive this afternoon. Four members: Ann Glidewell, Cindy Ploch, Autumn Young, and Regina Schieltz drove through most of the western half of Darke County searching flooded fields and wet areas. It rained the entire drive, but that didn't dampen our spirits or our finds. Highlights included: Can. Geese many Snow Goose 1 white phase Mallards Redheads Gadwalls Lesser Scaups Ringneck ducks Wood Ducks Bufflehead 1 Hooded Mergansers Great Blue Heron Wild Turkeys 3 kestrel red-tailed hawk mourning doves robins grackles redwings starlings song sparrows Am. pipits 12 Cardinal crows Bluejays Titmouse Carolina Chickadee No snipes or other shorebirds. There sure were enough flooded fields for them. I guess it was just a little early. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]