Julie and I looked around the south end of the lake at Buck Creek State Park in Clark County near Springfield this morning. There were 18 Sandhill Cranes near the dam in shallow water not far from the beach when we arrived but they took off before we were finished with our walk. There were lots of ducks and Canada Geese scattered on the lake. They are probably moving from small ponds which are freezing now. We saw two male Wood Ducks, a few shovelers, some Gadwalls, Mallards, Canvasbacks, a Ring-necked Duck, a few Lesser Scaup, a female Bufflehead, about 30 Ruddy Ducks, and at 100 Hooded Mergansers. There were also about 30 Pied-billed Grebes but we didn't find any Horned Grebes. We didn't go farther north where there were more birds that we couldn't identify. Doug Overacker Julie Karlson ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]