I had low expectations for the limited time I could bird at Mosquito Lake today, but the brief trip was certainly worth the effort. Judy Hochadel *Mosquito Lake 11/7/2014* 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Light snow & rain, Winds NNW ~12 mph *South side of causeway:* 44 Common Loon – this was only how many I was able to see well enough to positively identify, there were more loons further out 2 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Red-breasted Merganser 78 Bonaparte’s Gull – small flocks of 5-8 birds, watched a flock harassing a Loon (x3) 1 Ring-billed Gull 1 Belted Kingfisher *Refuge/north end of lake:* 17 Pied-billed Grebe 14 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron Lots and lots of Canada Goose 48 Mallard 9 American Black Duck 72 Gadwall 123 Green-winged Teal 48 Northern Pintail 33 Red-breasted Merganser 137 Hooded Merganser 1 Adult Bald Eagle 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 300+ American Coot 550+ Bonaparte’s Gull – looked like many more were further out, might be close to 900 but too far out to positively identify 7 Ring-billed Gull 5 Northern Juncos An assortment of resident songbirds *Elsewhere:* 2 Adult Bald Eagles flying over St Rt 46 in Howland, chasing each other over the rooftops of suburbia ______________________________________________________________________ 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]