I went out this afternoon to check out waterfowl. Much of the wetlands are still frozen, with a few areas of open water. That will continue to change. I started out at the Prairie Lane ponds, which actually turned out the best. Aside from lots of Canada geese, there were: Hooded merganser (5-6 pairs) Common merganser (1) Mallards (15 or so) Redhead (1) Ring-necked duck (1) Lesser scaup (25) Bufflehead (1) Killdeer (1) Bald eagle (1 imm.) Coot (1) Sandhill crane (2) I tried Messner Rd, but not much there. Cemetery Rd pond off SR 224 near Shreve was mostly frozen, but there was one open lead on the far side. That contained: Ring-necked duck (125) Lesser scaup (15) Common goldeneye (5) I stopped at Wright Marsh, but that was mostly frozen. So, a few ducks around. I'm sure it will continue to get better. Late last week we saw a lot of pintails and tundra swans off Wilderness Rd. west of Wooster. Randy Rowe, Wooster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]