stopped above the Greenlawn Dam in Columbus mid-day to see how the semitropical enclave was doing. While great egret numbers have for many weeks exceeded 15 (with as many as 90), only seven were present, hunkered down--on dry land--behind shoreline vegetation; while we were there, three of them bailed out and flew south. Cormorant numbers, which had totaled more than a hundred for just as long, had dwindled to four. Not even November, Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]