Male long-tail duck and blue goose still present at 300pm. Thanks for the reports Nancy and James! On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 2:02 PM, James Muller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I managed to find one Snow Goose there too, an immature blue morph. I put a picture in my eBird checklist. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22055032 James Muller On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 1:49:14 PM Nancy Rudd <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]