The major winter storm "Titan" turned south and missed most of Ohio a few days ago, but hit spots south of here pretty hard. Because the Great Lakes remain largely frozen, migrating red-necked grebes were forced south in numbers reminiscent of our more recent big fallouts in 2003 and 1994. Two lakes in higher-altitude N. Carolina had record flocks of 86 and 59 where this species is hardly known: http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NzC (see Legrand's posts), and W.Va had quite a few. Outside of a group of 12 in PA, states at our latitude have fairly normal numbers so far. Still, all those windswept grebes are likely to be finding their bearings and headed north eventually... Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]