I went out to check on the pelicans that Mike Hatfield reported last night. The 5 pelicans were still at the north end of the lake at Buck Creek State Park. Near the northeast part of the park there is a lane off Grant Road that leads to the lake. They have put up a gate now so that you can only drive about 40 yards from the road. You must then walk down to the lake. There were also a few ducks, gulls, geese, and cormorants visible from this point. A scope is useful. At other places on the lake there are quite a few ducks but you would have to check out several vantage points to see where the best viewing is. Visible from the north end of the beach at very long distance were 200+ Lesser Scaup, a few Red-breasted Mergansers, and some Ruddy Ducks. For anyone interested here are my pelican sightings from Clark County. The record was in 1989 and they have been recorded in about half the years since then. I started birding here in 1975. Doug Overacker Springfield, Ohio American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 04/05/89 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 FIRST REPORTED ON 4/4/89 04/08/89 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 04/09/89 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 LAST SIGHTING 4/25/89 09/04/89 CLARK LAKE 1 04/29/92 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 SEEN BY BILL ARNOLD 11/13/93 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 11/25/93 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 05/10/95 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 05/10/96 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 2 SEEN BY BILL ARNOLD 04/04/02 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 04/06/02 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 15 04/07/02 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 19 03/15/03 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 04/04/03 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 04/06/03 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 04/27/04 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 4 04/10/05 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 12 04/16/05 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 03/24/07 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 3 03/31/07 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 07/25/08 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 08/02/08 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 08/03/08 BUCK CREEK STATE PARK 1 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]