Yesterday, April 8, counted 40 common loons on LaDue Reservoir, down slightly from last week's 50+ and 3/25's 100. About 250 A. coots, 200+ red-br. mergansers, a raft of 60ish lesser scaup, some ruddy ducks, a few pied-billed and horned grebes. No doubt more beyond the reach of my old 20x Bushnell Spacemaster scope. Also on April 8th: * a single common loon at the south end of East Branch Reservoir in Headwaters Park off Rt. 608 in Geauga Co. 3 common egrets and a pair of kestrels in the Tare Creek Marsh on either side of Rt. 608 in North of Middlefield. Dan Best ______________________________________________________________________ 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]