Hi y'all, Earlier today Justus Nethero and I visited Delaware Reservoir at Delaware Wildlife Area. At the intersection of Panhandle and Leonardsburg Rd., an overlook of the reservoir allowed us to spot a single female SURF SCOTER. I identified it by the very thick, almost eider-like bill, and the two pale spots on the cheek- one near the bill, and one behind and near the eye. Later, while Justus was driving me to the airport to go home to Boston for Thanksgiving, I saw a flock of geese fly over the road near the Kroger facility (past Meijer) just east of Delaware on rt 36. I noticed two tiny geese, and saw that they joined about 250 geese in a field across from the Kroger facility, on the north side of 36. I ordered that the car be turned around, and we took a look. We counted a total of 9(!) CACKLING GEESE in the field with the Canadas. There may have been more, since some were almost entirely obscured by small rises in the field. As we were leaving (we were late for the airport!), the geese took off, and landed in the field on the south side of 36, in front of the Kroger facility. Some landed in a pond behind the walls of the Kroger manufacturing complex, and were then not visible from the road. The Cacklers were classic. Small, almost as small as Mallards. Also, they had dusky brown breasts, unlike the white-breasted Canadas. Good birding, Sean -- Sean Williams, '11 Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt Ohio Wesleyan University HWCC 724 Delaware, OH 43015 617-470-4094 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]