Castalia pond - no Highlights from this morning and early afternoon... Castalia pond - not a lot of variety: Canada geese, mallards, a few each gadwall, shovelers, American wigeon. Pickerel Creek (the western edge on Pearson Rd.) - Lots of small birds and woodpeckers in the woodlot by the marsh - my screech owl imitation brought them in. A flicker along Pearson near US 6. Sheldon's Marsh - two Carolina wrens were the best of the common woodsy birds. Huron - while I watched from the new boat launch parking lot, a peregrine took a rock pigeon off a utility wire, perched with it for a couple of minutes on the old ConAgra tower, then made a mid-air exchange to (presumably) his mate over the adjacent rail yard. She flew off to the east and he returned to ConAgra. Wellington Upground Reservoir - about 400 Canada geese, 50 mallards, and a single coot visible in and along a small slit of water well north of the boat launch. Most of the geese were hunkered down so the Sunday-reported greater white-fronted might have been hiding in the crowd. Caley - eerily birdless - a sprinkling of chickadees, one each titmouse, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, cardinal, and blue jay. Craig Caldwell Westlake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]