The New Year brought good birding to South Bass Island yesterday. At the Scheeff East Point Nature Preserve, saw 3 long-tailed ducks with about 12 horned grebes, 33 tundra swans, along with the usual bufflehead, ring- billed and herring gulls. Large rafts of common goldeneyes were seen from the beach as well a few red-breasted mergansers. Another highlight were two immature bald eagles at the Preserve. Debbie Woischke and I saw a pair of adult bald eagles in a tree near the nest they have built at Terwilliger's Pond, easily visible from the road, the evening before and saw one there New Year's morning. Saw 4 hermit thrushes in the woods near my house. Where were they for our Christmas Count? Happy New Year! 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]