Brian Menker called to inform me about a couple birds at Buck Creek State Park and Old Reid Park this afternoon. Julie and I drove to the state park to look over the lake. There was a group of about 12 blue morph and 25 white morph Snow Geese in a very tight group seen from near the visitor's center on the west side of the lake. There was also about 100 cormorants on the lake. There were a few other ducks and several grebes. Then we drove to Old Reid Park which is just across Croft Road to check the ponds. We soon found the Gadwall x Green-winged Teal. We saw one last winter at this location and I would assume it is the same bird. It looked the same. The ducks seem a little shy as you might expect with duck season open. There were about 100 Gadwalls on the ponds. This has been a good spot for Gadwalls in the fall until the ponds freeze for quite a few years now. We also saw a few Hooded Mergansers, a female Bufflehead, a shoveler, and lots of Mallards. Doug Overacker Springfield, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]