41/2 hours of sparrow searching this morning at Longbrakes turned up 9 species plus a unidentified ammodramus sp. who made a brief appearance at the edge of the marsh. Highlights include: Canada Goose 87 Wood Duck 8 Gadwall 19 Am. Wigeon 6 Am. Black Duck 5 Mallard 285 Blue Winged Teal 125 N. Shoveler 32 N. Pintail 23 Green Winged Teal 20 Redhead 4 Ring Necked Duck 1 Ruddy Duck 43 Pied Billed Grebe 7 AMERICAN BITTERN 1 N. Harrier 5 Cooper's Hawk 1 Am. Coot 290 Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Bonaparte's Gull 13 Tree Swallow 38 Am. Pipit 45 Cedar Waxwing 68 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 1 Vesper Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 112 Song Sparrow 90 Lincoln's Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 180 White Throated Sparrow 14 White Crowned Sparrow 32 AMMODRAMUS SPARROW SP. 1 E. Meadowlark 8 Rusty Blackbird 11 Rick Counts Wyandot Co. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]