Karin Tanquist and I had a modest collection of waterfowl today 3/21/10 at Lakes Rockwell and Pippen. Highlights were the stunning male Bufflehead on Lake Pippen, below the road and up close to shore putting on a splendid show of mating behavior with the late afternoon sun behind us. There were 40 Bufflehead on the two lakes. Location: Lake Rockwell-Ravenna Rd--Number of species: 14 Canada Goose--10 Gadwall--4 American Wigeon--5 Mallard--4 Northern Shoveler--1 Ring-necked Duck--13 Bufflehead--26 Common Merganser--12 Red-breasted Merganser--15 Ruddy Duck--6 Horned Grebe--2 Double-crested Cormorant--19 Turkey Vulture--1 Herring Gull--110 Location: Lake Pippen--Number of species: 9 Canada Goose--4 Ring-necked Duck--18 Bufflehead--14 Hooded Merganser--4 Pied-billed Grebe--4 Red-bellied Woodpecker--1 Hairy Woodpecker--2 Black-capped Chickadee--2 Tufted Titmouse--4 Location: Barlow (Case) Farm Park American Kestrel--2 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]