LaDue was brimming with ducks this afternoon. I spent several hours happily picking through the flocks. (A scope is a real plus here, but many were easily seen with binoculars.) I saw two long tailed ducks, a male and a female, on the reservoir. Bonnie Fish found a third long tailed, a male, later this evening. Horned grebes, well over forty, many already in breeding plumage. A few pied bills also. Over 80 buffleheads, 100 plus red breasted mergansers, a few common mergansers. Lots of scaup, and a few n. shovelers, ring necked ducks, mallards and ruddy ducks. (Many missed, to be ferreted out tomorrow.) Seen from Valley Road. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]