stopped by GORDON with one of my school students who wanted to see a swan (it wasn't there). we were there less than half an hour. bird numbers much less than yesterday. cool breeze from the north. birds mostly 50+ yards off of shore, got closer to a few as i walked out on the ledge easterly. (i saw what i think to be a 3+foot carp in the harbor south of the eastern docks against the close breakwall - 2 geese on nests there) Mergansers Common - less than 50 from 72nd eastward Hooded - less than a dozen males stii outnumber the feamles but less of a ratio maybe 3:1 today Grebes Eared (1) Pied-billed (2) Cormorants less than a dozen today Mallards (2) Canada Geese (less tha 20) Gulls still EVERYWHERE loud and obnoxious - ringed-billed and herring only ones i identified WILDWOOD - (less tha 30 min there) about 20 yards of ice near the launch with a couple dozen gulls (RB + H only) in the parking lot, flying around and in the parking lot totalled around 100 of said gulls. nothing in Euc Creek out near the northern docks were Grebes Eared (5 - 2 females) Pied-billed (3 - 1 female) Mergansers Common (6 - 2 females) Red-breated (9 - 2 females) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]