Hi everyone, We went for a walk on Dike 14 this afternoon (I know, that’s not the official name, for us it will always be Dike 14) and a visit to the 55th Street marina. Dike 14: We didn’t have a lot of species, but quite a few individuals: Red-breasted Merganser—50+ Horned Grebe (all molting into breeding plumage, and one entirely there)—15 Double-crested Cormorant—12 Bufflehead (in the turning basin)—14 Blue-winged teal (also in the basin)—1 male American Coot (“)—4 Mallard (“)—1 male Canada Goose—1 (!) Common Loon (also in the basin)—2 Herring Gull—15 Ring-billed Gull—20 American Robin—30+ European Starling—30+ Common Grackle—8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet—3 Red-winged Blackbird 25+ Song Sparrow—a lifetime supply, at least 40 by count Swamp Sparrow—1 Dark-eyed Junco—1 Great Blue Heron—1 and the last bird we saw: American Kestrel—1 55th Street marina: Basically the same variety, with the addition of more geese and Lesser Scaup—35+ Rock Pigeon—4 Killdeer—1 Best wishes, Steve -- -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.elchocomining.net http://elchocomining.tumblr.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan www.stevecagan.blogspot.com http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/stevecagan 216-932-2753 (USA) 322-344-7909 (Colombia) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]