With most of South Bass Island enclosed in ice, the open water on the far east end of the island at the Scheeff East Point Nature Preserve was full of waterfowl just before sundown. No sign of the belted-kingfisher who had been there a few days before. xxx Tundra Swans xxx Canada Geese xxx Mallards xxxx Common Goldeneye xxx Buffleheads xxx Scaup sp. xxx Redheads xx Canvasback xx Red-breasted mergansers xx Ring-necked Ducks 1 Horned Grebe 3 Long-tailed Ducks There were a couple of pintail with other species off of Chapman's Point. Yesterday before freeze up, there were Great Black-backed, Herring, Ring- billed, and Bonaparte's gulls, double-crested cormorants, and a hooded merganser with the goldeneyes, buffleheads and mallards in the harbor near Alligator Bar. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]