Yesterday 12/23 I did my first survey of the winter season along the Mahoning R. (Struthers to Lowellville section). I had some pretty good luck, even though we haven't had a freeze-up yet. Birds included 6 Am. black ducks, 7 ring-necked ducks, bufflehead, 23 hooded mergansers, pied-billed grebe, an adult bald eagle, 2 red-tailed hawks, Am. kestrel, 75 ring-billed gulls, Carolina wren, and e. bluebirds. Craig Holt, Lowellville ______________________________________________________________________ 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]