After looking over my photos with guidebooks at hand, it’s pretty clear the bird I saw this morning was not one of yesterday’s Black Scoters after all, but rather a female/immature Surf Scoter. Sorry for the confusion. Carl W. > On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:00 PM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > At least one of the Black Scoters that Steve Landes and Dan Sanders reported yesterday was still here this morning, best viewed from the disc golf/boat launch area off Africa Road. It was hanging out with a raft of coots. At 11:36 it flew north out of sight but didn't seem to be leaving the reservoir. > > Carl Winstead > Galloway > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]