Just a quick email to say that Big Island is awash in waterfowl activity. Geese...well, lets just say that they are well represented! :-D WAY to many to count. Ducks are flying all around with Pintails, Shovelers, & Mallards being the easy ones to spot...because they are everywhere. I had a Grouping of 100-150 Shovelers fly overhead, just wave upon wave. Coots and Pied-billed Grebes were present in ons and twos, and a half dozen Hooded Mergansers finished the quick scan that I took. Also the noise of the starlings, and black birds, was just astounding and deafening I would imagine to the caretaker. Raptors were abundant. No owls, but rough-legs were prevalent. followed by red-tailed and kestrels. Time to go to work.:-D Steve ______________________________________________________________________ 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]