Spring semester is in high gear, leaving me little time to bird, but I've had several good birds this week just by stopping and checking some local spots before and after classes. Nice mix of waterfowl along the Ohio River in Belpre, Ohio the past 3 days: Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck American Coot and lots of Mallards, Canada Geese, and Ring-billed Gulls This morning I had a flock of 300+ Red-winged and Rusty Blackbirds in a field along 618 which cuts right through Belpre. Get out and go birding! Kyle Carlsen Vincent, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]