Superior Lagoon is basically a couple of boat channels surrounding a strip of land jammed with homes of people who like to see as many boats as possible through their back windows. Few vistas are available to the average visitor, but the best are north along Park Rd just west of the Rt. 6 bridge over the river. We visited there this morning but missed the bird. Thanks to Tom Stahl for his report of this remarkable record. We saw two gulls and a couple dozen swallows, one mallard. Whistlers are very adaptable ducks, and this seemingly inhospitable area has attracted one, but we would have had a fighting chance at finding it only with a boat. Unless people feed ducks there--which I didn't see going on--flying twenty miles from Pipe Creek just because some birders spooked them seems like a stretch, so there could easily be two or more of these ducks around now; they are social creatures, and could wander in groups. And oh yes, we were at Pipe Creek from 830-915 and 11:30-12:30 as well. There are now two red-necked phalaropes and a molting adult long-billed dowitcher (it was the only adult dow present; all the rest were juvenile SBD); a possible little blue heron was glimpsed unsatisfactorily in the lotuses in C. Otherwise little had changed since Saturday, when I missed the departure of the duck by twenty minutes, and its return by half an hour. If you see me there, go to lunch. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]