Mo Bacik and I tallied 70 species while trekking around the Northwest today. As Karl Overman noted yesterday, waterfowl numbers have dropped to a mere fraction of their level at this time last week, and the super-productive flooded farm fields in the area have all but dried up. Several impoundments near the auto tour's end at Veler Rd. held good numbers of Gadwall (500) and wigeon (250), but there were less 100 ducks total at Metzger in place of thousands last weekend. Highlights: Blue-winged Teal 5 Ottawa Northern Harrier 5 four at Magee, including two males heading north over the lake together not long after dawn, perhaps remnants of yesterday's hawk movement Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Ottawa again probably grounded here yesterday Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Darsch Rd. American Woodcock 5 Magee Bonaparte's Gull 10 Magee Great Horned Owl 1 Rusty Blackbird 30 one dark-eyed fem. type Good birding - Gabe Leidy Cleveland ______________________________________________________________________ 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]