The signs warning of algae bloom are still posted at LaDue, but they haven't deterred the fishermen. Bird numbers on the lake were very light. Only two dozen ducks that I could find, and they were well towards the damn. Of those I could only pick out the 6 ruddy ducks. One American pipit on the shoreline was the a pleasant diversion. Otherwise a few killdeer, a couple of dc cormorants and four pied billed grebes. A couple of dozen ring billed gulls, a few c geese. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]