This is for those of you that saw the ebird submissions about the Pacific Loon seen on 5/30 and 5/31 on Alum Creek Reservoir. Disclaimer: I do not have a scope, and my binocs are 8x I arrived at Alum Creek SP around 6pm tonight (5/31) scanned the water at a number of areas above and below the Cheshire Road Bridge, including: -south of the bridge on the west side from within the camp ground (they will give a 30 minute visitor pass if you ask nicely) -north of the bridge on the west side from the camp ground boat launch -north of the bridge on the east side at one of the mountain bike parking areas (the sun was really inhibiting my view here and the water was really rough on the east side) -south of the bridge on the east side at the first pull off parking area - this area was a bit further south than when I looked on the west side and again the water was pretty choppy. This is a pretty big area, it is very possible that the bird just relocated on the lake (or that I missed it). I am very interested to hear if other folks were able to locate the bird. Good Birding, Erica Szeyller [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]