I was in Northwest Ohio this weekend. Things were pretty slow, but I did find a few things. I checked out Castalia Saturday morning and it was pretty slow. I think there were only about 100 ducks there with 90% being mallards and shovelers. There were single gadwall and widgeon and a handful of bufflehead and redheads and a lonely scaup. There were a couple hundred geese, but they left shortly after I got there. I did have a single snow goose and one cackling goose. The area around Magee-Ottawa was ice and snow covered so there were few waterfowl in that area. I did have a few northern hariers and a couple rough-legged hawks. I drove through Maumee Bay State Park and saw only a single red-tailed hawk and a few songbirds. At Bayshore power plant there were quite a few ducks, but everything was pretty far out. There were a lot of redheads, canvasback, and lesser scaup. I did have a single long-tailed duck. On Sunday I birded the Ottawa NWR area again. Still only a few waterfowl. I did see a lot more horned larks flying over and in the fields and a few buntings and longspurs. Not much else of note. John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]