A beautiful day on South Bass Island so Paula Ziebarth and I took a drive around the island this morning and reported the following: Common Redpolls-2 Common Redpolls were observed today at Kit Knaser's feeder. She has a flock of about a dozen that have been visiting regularly (twice yesterday.) Tree Swallows-3, the first of the year seen by Paula at her nest boxes near the South Bass Island Airport. Ring-necked Ducks-4 Hooded Merganser-3, in Terwilliger's Pond Pintails-4, flying over Scheeff East Point Preserve Canvasback-xx Redhead-xx Lesser Scaup-xx Common Goldeneye-xx Bufflehead-xx Red-breasted Merganser-xx Mallard-xx Canada Goose-xx Great Blue Herons-2 Turkey Vultures-7 Coopers Hawk-2 Northern Harrier-1 Yesterday, I got a chance to bird on Pelee Island, just to the north, and saw the following Tree Sparrows-flock of about 20 Wood Ducks-30 in pond near Fish Point Killdeers-everywhere in farm fields Song Sparrow Brown Creeper Red-bellied Woodpecker The sand tip was split in two pieces with over 100 gulls at the end-with at least 1/3 of which seemed to be Greater Black-backed Gulls. There was what at first glance appeared to be a Horned Grebe near the point but did not get a second look. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]