Emboldened by Gabe Leidy's Sunday bonanza, I visited Spitzer Marina this 
morning.  It's mostly iced over and the gulls were roosting in dense packs on 
the ice, facing the northwest wind and presenting a sea of gray backs.  I picked 
out one glaucous and two lesser black-backed gulls and about 20 great 
black-backed were around the edges.  Couldn't winkle out any of the more exotic 
specimens.  Lots of mergansers in the open water of the harbor proper, plus some 
coots and a single pied-billed grebe.

The US6 lift bridge is closed, they say for two days, so I didn't try to get to 
the old "hot waters" area on the west bank.  It's not hot anyway; the power 
plant shut down some years ago and was demolished last year.

Qué será.

Craig Caldwell
Westlake
Northeast Regional Director
Ohio Ornithological Society
"Ohio's Birding Network"

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