This afternoon at Geauga Park District's Walter C. Best Wildlife Preserve just south of the town of Chardon on Rt. 44: 3 common loons, about 40 ring-necked ducks, 5 lesser scaup, a dozen buffleheads, a pair of mallards and a pied-billed grebe. A male bluebird was holding off several tree swallows in competition for a nest box. Dan Best ______________________________________________________________________ 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]