I drove into Wildwood SP Marina today around 10:25am to the west side of the parking area near the creek and before I parked the car (I jumped out) saw my best birds of the day. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and a long string of large white birds were flying east beyond the marina, Tundra Swans. They changed course a few times starting to fly towards the marina, turned around a few times and ended up flying southeast, the time on my camera showed it lasted at least 3-1/2 mins. I could hear them yelping like dogs. Wild wood Marina/Villa Angela - 10:25am to 1:25pm - 19 to 27 deg, winds 4-6mph SE,S to SW Didn't see a whole lot else unusual at the park today Tundra Swans - 31 (for a point & shoot camera got good views of them) Canada Geese 125 Red-breasted Mergansers - saw approx 1000 - 1500 fly east at one time Ruddy Ducks 4 - Villa Angela out form rock piles Ring-billed Gulls 700-800 in marina Bonaparte's Gulls 5 Herring Gulls - few in marina American Tree Sparrows 4 (3WW, 1VA) Carolina Wren 1 heard in WW Winter Wren 1 heard only in WW I did stop at Sims Park in Euclid from 2:05 to 2:40pm Did not thoroughly scan all the open waters so I may have missed some scoters or birds Red-breasted Mergansers - small numbers in water Black Scoter 1 (female) very close to shore just west of pier Surf Scoter 1 far east of pier (was unable to find any others) Common Goldeneyes approx 170 Scaup - at least 24 far east of the pier in with the largest concentration of Goldeneye (I could not ID which Scaup) - I did not see any Scaup yesterday - the Surf Scoter was mixed in with all of the Goldeneye and Scaup Bufflehead 2 near shore Great Black-backed Gull 1 Bonaparte's Gulls - few Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]