I spent several hours today birding around Mosquito. I didn't find the snowy owl, but did see a nice variety of species, including: 50 gadwalls, Am. black ducks, n. shovelers, n. pintail, lesser scaup, buffleheads, 80 hooded mergansers, common mergansers, ruddy ducks, c. loon, pied-billed grebes, horned grebe, great blue heron, 4 SANDHILL CRANES, 130 Am. coots, Bonaparte's gulls, 2 bald eagles, red-headed woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, and dark-eyed juncos. Craig Holt, Lowellville ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]