Greetings - With strong NNW winds today at 15-25 mph I set up shop at Rocky River Park between 9:45 and 11:20 a.m. The season's first big movement of waterfowl was in high gear, with constant streams of mixed species flocks. Mixed species flocks totaled between 5 and 45 birds and moved past consistently, heading from the east to the west. Most flocks had pintail, wigeon, Mallards, and teal mixed in. Highlights included good numbers of Northern Pintail, American Wigeon, a single SURF SCOTER, Merlin. Totals: Northern Pintail (538), American Wigeon (210), Gadwall (55), Lesser Scaup (4), Northern Shoveler (65), Green-winged Teal (120), Blue-winged Teal (10), teal species (100), Surf Scoter (1), Mallard (320), American Black Duck (38), dabbling duck species (300), Canada Goose (24). Other species: Merlin (1), Bald Eagle (3), Turkey Vulture (6), Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 - came in off the lake), loads of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls, passerine species (2). Best of birding - jb Jen [log in to unmask] Cleveland, Ohio 330-701-6452 Bird Illustrator / www.jenbrumfield.com Birding Tour Guide (Ohio), Local Patch Birding / www.jenbrumfield.com Birding Tour Guide (worldwide), Tropical Birding / www.tropicalbirding.com Naturalist/Artist, Cleveland Metroparks / www.clemetparks.com LEICA Birding Optics Prostaff / http://en.leica-camera.com/sport_optics/NorthNW Lake Erie blog / www.northnw.wordpress.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]