Dear Fellow Birders Sorry for the delay, but yesterday I made a trip down to Long Point and came up with quite a few good species. I first tried for the Smith's Longspur south of Hamilton but had no luck after waiting around for around 30min. At the Turkey Point Marina there were around 100+ Tundra Swans, C.Mergansers, and Bufflehead, but not much else. The upon ariving in the Long Point area there were around 300+ Tundra Swans in the field just north of the Sinclair-Campbell pulloff, just west of the intersection of H-N 42 & Hwy 59. Then proceeded down the causeway and right at the base on the marshes on the west side there were another group of around 300-400+ swans, and among them were hundreds of Wigeon, a few dozen Pintail, Shovellers, and Gadwall, also there were several Killdeer in the area as well. I then went down to the Big Creek Marsh trails and from the lookout tower you could see another 200+ swans and other puddle ducks in the western areas of the marsh. In the inner bay since there was no ice most of the ducks were much further out, but there was a wide assembliage of ducks, including another group of 200+ swans, coots, 2 Hooded Mergansers, 1 Ruddy Duck, 1 Ring-necked Duck, both Scaup, Shoveller, Goldeneye, Canvasback, and Redhead. Also over the course of time I was in the Big Creek area there were constantly many swans flying over the marsh. At Old Cut (which looks like it too quite a beating during last weekends storm) there wasn't too much other than a singing Carolina Wren and some migrant Robins. The last stop of the day was at Lee Browns which didn't have much other than some Wigeon, but there was a large blackbird flock there with many females present in it. Then driving away (just to the east of Lee Browns) I saw another group of swans flying over and pulled over to watch, and found 7 Sandhill Cranes which then proceeded to land in a field a few hundred meters north of the road and foraged for a while. While watching these several hundred swans passed over head, almost a constant stream, in total I estimated that I saw around 1500 swans yesterday. Mike Boyd Directions: From the 401 exit at Hwy 59 and follow this south and it leads directly to Long Point. Mike Boyd <boydm@uoguelph.ca>