It was going to be a pretty slow day. Killdeer Plains was okay, but slow...it took a while to get to 1000 geese.:-D Then as the sun began to set, we headed towards the house by way of Herr Rd/SR203/Big Island Wildlife Area....and ran into an amount of geese that would rival the locust storm in the Bible....what I thought was smoke were geese...I guessed 2k...but it could have easily been twice that. Tundra Swans were everywhere and the surprise for the day were 3 Snow Geese...easily seen with another mess of flying Canada Geese. Lists below. God Bless and Happy Birding :-D Steve, Enola, and Amanda Jones. Observer: Steven Jones 2014-03-09 15:28 Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area Protocol: Traveling 15 Miles 117 Minutes Observers: 3 All birds reported? Yes 1000 Canada Goose 50 Mallard 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 4 Mourning Dove 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 American Kestrel 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Horned Lark 30 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 30 European Starling 10 American Tree Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 10 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Northern Cardinal 60 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 2014-03-09 18:56 Big Island Wildlife Area--Herr Rd. Protocol: Traveling 5 Miles 30 Minutes Observers: 3 All birds reported? Yes Comments: this was the field between Herr rd and SR203, and pond across from tower. 3 Snow Goose 2000 Canada Goose 4 Trumpeter Swan 140 Tundra Swan in field behind tower, seen from 203 in groops of 20-40 plus another 30 on Herr Rd. and another 30 in contaiment pond across from tower. 10 American Wigeon 500 Mallard 100 Northern Pintail 20 Green-winged Teal 300 Redhead 20 Lesser Scaup 1 Red-tailed Hawk 20 American Coot 2 Killdeer 200 Ring-billed Gull 12 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1 Mourning Dove 1 Short-eared Owl 3 American Kestrel 4 American Crow 2 Horned Lark 20 European Starling 2 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 10 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Eastern Meadowlark ______________________________________________________________________ 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]