Greetings----made some stops along the NE lakefront yesterday 2/8.   Started at Ashtabula; was greeted by ice and snow. Virtually no open water, no birds of note.  Next stop Eastlake PP; as recently mentioned on another post, common and r-b mergansers and herring gulls dominated there.  No rarities found.  E. 72nd St. at Cleveland had thousands of gulls, again herrings were most conspicuous.  A first-winter Iceland gull put in a nice close appearance.    No Bonies, not many great black-backs either.  Very nice assortment of waterfowl at point-blank range.    Went down to Summit L. in Akron; two little areas of open water held small numbers of fowl.  Hooded mergs, ruddy ducks, ring-necked duck, etc.  were there.   A fine complement to the canvasbacks, redheads, scaups, buffleheads, goldeneyes,etc, along the Lake.   Am. coots surviving at most open-water spots.  4 d-c cormorants and a p-b grebe a mild surprise @E. 72.     A male n. harrier was along Rte. 224 in Mahoning Co.
 east of Berlin L.     Later, Craig

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