I stopped at Sims Park in Euclid today (11/4) from 10:10 to 11:30pm. Here is some of what I was able to ID: Black Scoters 4 (females) Surf Scoter 1 White-winged Scoters 3 or 4 Scoters were moving around could of been more they were all in the water Red-breasted Mergansers 350-400 in water Green-winged Teal 1 Ruddy Duck 1 (hanging around with Black Scoters) Common Goldeneye ~ 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 (east of pier) American Robins 45+ Ring-billed and Herring Gulls only Went to Villa Angela/Wildwood SP in Cleveland from 12:00noon to 2:30pm today 11/4. American Black Duck 1 (WW) American Coot 1 White-throated Sparrows - very small numbers White-crowned Sparrow 1 (WW) Song Sparrows 8 Swamp Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Juncos 8-10 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wrens 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 5 Hermit Thrush 2 (WW) American Robins - multiple dozens Eastern Phoebe 1 (various locations along Euclid Creek in Wildwood) Saturday (11/3) on my way home I stopped at Bay View in Erie County just north of Rt 2 @ 269 from 3:45 to 4pm. West side of road leading into Bay View at fishermans pull off I stopped and scanned the small body of water you pass just before you drive over the bridge (on the right) over Sandusky Bay there were over 100 Hooded Mergansers (females & males) at the furthest west end mixed with a few Cormorants and gulls. No other ducks were with them. Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH Northeastern Cuyahoga County http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]