My 3rd recent trip to Jackson Bog. 40 degrees was pleasant except for the rain. When the wind kicked up, I had to go. I could hear geese and some ducks as I approached the boardwalk, but most were under cover in the tall grasses or blocked by the island grasses. A lot of the ice is melted today and the birds are on the far side from the boardwalk. A few ducks were flying away. No geese flew in during this visit about 9-10:15a. Numbers were a lot smaller than my last visit, types of birds seen were more. Six Canada Geese in view, but seemed to hear many more than that. One Greater White-fronted Goose in view to the northwest of the better viewing area on the catwalk on the edge of a grass island. A few Canvasback, Northern Shoveler, American Coots, American Wigeon, Ruddy ducks, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Common Mergansers, Horned Grebes [a group of coot-sized birds, white cheeks, winter plumage; saw a partial molt one with the horns starting to grow in, dive, but couldn't find it again], a lot less Ring-necked ducks in sight, one Bufflehead, one Pied-billed Grebe, one Hooded Merganser landed right in front of my binocular view. Birds from the walk in and out: Red-winged blackbirds, Robins, 1-Northern Flicker, 1-White-breasted Nuthatch, Black-capped Chickadees, Song Sparrows, Northern Cardinals, American Crows and Blue Jays. Cynthia Norris Stark Co. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]