Spent the afternoon checking out Pleasant Hill Lake (Ashland/Richland), Clear Fork Res. (Richland), and Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area and Shreve L. (Wayne) Good numbers of waterfowl,highlighted by big flight of Horned Grebes - 138 total: 87 PHL, 32 CFR, 19 Shreve L. 175 Bonaparte's Gulls at PHL, mainly Ring-billed and Herring at CFR and 200+ Ring-billed at Funk Tundra Swan - 162 - Funk 100+ Black, Pintail, Am. Wigeon, Mallard, Gadwall smaller numbers of all other expected ducks, plus the first Blue-winged Teal at Funk 1260 Lesser Scaup 350 Ring-necked Ducks 123 Bufflehead 188 Red-br. Merganser (140 CFR) 77 Ruddy Ducks 2 C. Loons at PHL and 1 at CFR 50 Cormorants at CFR Pipits and Sandhill Cranes at Funk Late report - first hawk watch at Conneaut on Friday, 3/19 resulted in too much northwest in the wind. Totals included: 141 Turkey Vulture 5 Northern Harrier 2 Bald Eagle 8 Sharp-shinned 12 Cooper's 54 Red-shouldered 47 Red-tailed 2 Rough-legged Bruce Glick - Holmes County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]