We watched the mass of waterfowl at the patch of open water off the Cheshire Rd. boat launch site on Alum Creek Reservoir (Delaware County) from about 11:30-1:00 today (February 24). The not-previously-reported sighting was of a single long-tailed duck. Most of the time we were there it was in the patch of water closest to the parking lot and though often underwater, was clearly visible when up. By the time we left it had moved to a smaller bit of water further from the parking area and was harder to spot. Other birds included one bufflehead, three horned grebes, quite a few lesser scaup, and large numbers of canvasbacks, redheads, common mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, common goldeneyes, tundra swans, and Canada geese. When we first arrived several different species were harrassing the grebes which was odd. We also enjoyed watching a substantial number of male goldeneyes gather around a female and display. They think it's spring.... Nancy Rudd and Bob Gold ______________________________________________________________________ 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]