Hello, We've been watching waterfowl on local lakes and reservoirs daily with these north winds. Yesterday Chippewa Lake (Medina County) had five loons as well as ~20 swans. Ducks were too far away to ID in the high wind and rain. Today there ~200 Ruddy Ducks, 12 Bufflehead, 5 Horned Grebes, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 1 Hooded Merganser, 25+Ring-necked Ducks and similar numbers of scaup species. Wellington Reservoir had terrible conditions both days, making it difficult to ID ducks in the lee of the dikes across. The Long-tailed Duck was not re-found either day. There were 4 swans yesteday; none, today. There are at least a couple thousand waterfowl, though--Ruddy Ducks and Coots are most numerous, Ring-necked Ducks, scaup sp., Bufflehead, Pied-billed Grebes, Gadwall, Wigeon, and Mallard have been seen. We found swans on a small lake behind the Lodi Outlet Mall (I-71 and OH-83, viewed from White Road), too. Funk Wildlife Area had almost no waterfowl, though we did see 40 Sandhill Cranes. There was still a variety of sparrows--White-throated, White-crowned, Song, and 3 or 4 American Tree Sparrows, our first of the fall. Helen and Ken Ostermiller Medina, Lorain and Wayne County sightings ______________________________________________________________________ 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]