I've been checking my local stretch of the Mahoning R. about every other day this winter. I've found no great rarities, there, but birding has been interesting. Today I found: Canada geese, mallards, 3 Am. black ducks, 7 ring-necked ducks, lesser scaup, 3 hooded mergansers, common merganser, and pied-billed grebe. Also, the male yellow-bellied sapsucker is still a regular visitor to my suet feeder in Poland Twp. Craig Holt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]