Last night as I was going top the pasture to retrieve my old horse for the evening a flash of white on the pond next door caught my eye. At first I just thought it was Canada geese as usual but the size was wrong so I strained to see better. After I'd feed my old boy I went to the house and got my binoculars and returned to get a good look. There were about 70 Ring-necked ducks on the pond. About half of them remain there today. At the same time as I was going through the gate on the driveway I heard aloud sound of wings flapping coming from the adjacent pine grove. All of sudden Turkey Vultures took flight. About 40 of them came boiling out in a continuous flow. This morning as I was coming back through Williamstown, WV on the river road, on the Ohio River just across from the stop light at the Fenton Art Glass turn off I spotted a Cackling Goose with the Canada geese. I even turned around and went back to confirm what I saw. It was indeed a Cackling Goose. Lee Underschultz Firefly Hollow Little Hocking, OH www.fhsigns.com [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]