I traveled to Deer Creek with the intent of birding the overlooks on state park road #5. The barrier had not been pulled away. So I birded the reservoir from the dam and beach up to the Miller Road picnic area where ever there was access. Loads of Bonies - over 1000, Ring-billed and a few Herring Gulls. Common Loons - 23, Horned Grebes - 7, Red-necked Grebe - 1, Ruddy Ducks - 17, Mallards - 5, a pair of Lesser Scaup, Pied-billed Grebes - 3, Hooded Mergansers - 10, Great Blue Herons seen from the Miller Road picnic area - 20. There were ducks/grebes/loons? along the cliffs of park road #5 that I could see from a distance but not make out. I called the park office and was told that employees talked about moving the barrier this morning but there was a water leak somewhere that must have side-tracked them. I reiterated that we birders really appreciate them opening up the road to us on Mondays. Linda, who answered the phone, told me she would make sure they got the message. Melanie Shuter Circleville, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]