We have open water off the eastern tip of South Bass Island while the rest of the island is still surrounded by ice. An amazing number of waterfowl occupied the area yesterday between the ferry dock at Middle Bass, the southeast point of Middle Bass, Ballast Island and the tip of South Bass Island. In order of abundance: Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Redheads Canvasback Lesser Scaup Ring-necked Ducks Mallards Red-breasted Mergansers There were also Canada geese, Herring Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls on the edges of the ice. My husband reported seeing tundra swans fly overhead yesterday afternoon but did not find them at Scheeff East Point Preserve. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]