Today was the first day of the Nature Photo Weekend at NC and arriving for the event and posing at point blank range for everyone alongside the mallards just 20 ft. or so from the boardwalk was an American coot. I've posted a photo and it's worth a look just to check out the FEET, at least if you've never seen them before as was the case with me. Also around were lots of wood ducks and mallards, a red-tailed hawk, GBH, white-throated sparrows, kinglets, etc. http://www.pbase.com/tileman533/image/129471644 Denny McDonnell Euclid ______________________________________________________________________ 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]