I was passing through Hillsboro Ohio today and stopped at Rocky Fork Park. I saw three grebes- 2 in breeding plumage. It was raining and I had my backup binocs so I was stuck between an eared or a horned grebe. It seemed to me more like the Eared BUT my field guide (National Geographic) said they were rare in the east. Pictures on Cornell's "All About Birds" are very striking- ones I saw huddled up in the rain and colrs looked somewhat mottled so hard to call Any ideas? Also saw 3 Great Egrets and bunch of cormorants Hayward Chappell Lawrence County -- Hayward Chappell 766 Private Rd. 3952 Willow Wood, OH 45696 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]