Waterfowl near the Cheshire Road causeway across Alum Creek Reservoir, Alum Creek State Park, include new arrivals, 11 Horned Grebes, 41 Red-breasted Mergansers, and 13 Ring-necked Ducks along with more usual wintering Hooded Mergansers (14) and Canada Geese. All were within a few hundred meters south of the causeway tucked in the lee of the west shoreline. Tom Bain Delaware County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]