I got to take a walk out at the Scheeff East Point Nature Preserve today on South Bass Island. The highlight of the day was two purple sandpipers working along the rocky shore off Buckeye Point. I had my scope and got good looks. Also saw at Scheeff's: Horned Grebes 4 Tundra Swan 2 Commmon Goldeneyes xxx Bufflehead xx Scaup sp. xxx Canvasback 5 Redhead 10 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Hooded Merganser 2 Ring-bill Gull xxx Herring Gull xx Greater Black-backed Gull 2 Mallard xxx Canada Goose xxx In Put-in-Bay Harbor: Bufflehead xxx Ring-neck Duck 4 Redhead 4 Mallard xxx Canada Goose xxx Ring-billed Gull xxx South and East of Perry's Victory, all swimming together in the shallow bay: Tundra Swans 232 Canada Goose xxx Mallards xxx On Chapman Point Reef Ring-billed Gull xxx Greater Black-backed Gull 2 A beautiful blustery day! Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]