Just to add to before, while going through the very bad pictures taken today over at Killdeer, I spotted a pair of immature Mute Swans in amongst the Trumpeters. Steve J. wrote: > Went over to Killdeer this morning and saw plenty of waterfowl in the > small patches of water to make the trip pleasurable. :-) > > There were of course more Canada Geese than I care to count. Easily a > thousand scattered in the reserve. Most were in pond 1. > Also at pond #1 were 30 Redheads, 20 Pintail, 6-10 Ringnecks, about 30 > Mallards, and 20 Trumpeter Swans. There were more that were beyond the > reach of my camera, but that is what I could see. > At the pond near the maintenance building were more pintails and geese. > > > Eagles were all over killdeer I counted 10 juvi and no adults. Also saw > plenty of red tailed hawks. No owls but plenty of...remains to think > that there were owls that overwintered there. > > Big Island was slow. Only 50 ring billed Gulls were present and a lone > red tailed hawk was about it. > > Pretty cool trip. > > Later > > Steve Jones > (aka sjlarue) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at > www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]