Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Standing water of 2 to 4 inches now covers 40% (best guesstimate) of Englewood Metroparks "puddle". Today's count: Mallards - 100+ Northern pintails - 2 pr. Black ducks - 2 Canada geese - 4 !!! Great blue herons - 2 Soft-shelled turtle - 1 very large And among all the usual stuff: Song, field, tree, white-throated, and house sparrows Eastern bluebirds (many) Pileated, red-bellied, and downy woodpeckers Northern flicker Carolina wren White-breasted nuthatch American goldfinch House finch Tufted titmice And Lots Of The Usual Stuff (ALOTUS). Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]