I don't have much to add to Phil Chaon's report for today.  There were two
probable adult great black-backed x herring gull hybrids.  the one was the
more typical one like I have seen in the past.  The second bird had a very
faint string of pearls in the wingtips.  this is a field mark of
slaty-backed gull, but herring gulls also occasionally have them.  The
trailing white edge of the wing was also pretty wide.  The head shape and
head streaking was more typical of the GBBG x herring gull hybrids I have
seen in the past.  It was an interesting bird, but I think its just a
hybrid.  I also briefly saw a 2nd year glaucous x herring gull hybrid.  I
also had a flock of 9 snow buntings fly by.

At Fairport Harbor there was a single long-tailed duck and white-winged
scoter along with pied-billed grebe, mallard, American black duck, gadwall,
redhead, greater and lesser scaup, bufflehead, common goldeneye, common
merganser, and red-breasted merganser.

John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751

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