My birding partner, Lori, and I braved the mud, falling temperatures and high winds today at the Darby Bends portion of Prairie Oaks in Western Franklin County. We were richly rewarded for our efforts. There was a single female Long-tailed duck on the kids fishing pond. www.flickr.com/photos/54181712@N07/5487773074/ In addition we saw Red winged blackbird Killdeer Mourning dove Song sparrow Mallard Canada goose Northern shoveler Pied billed grebe Lesser scaup Red-breasted merganser Bufflehead Redhead ______________________________________________________________________ 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]