Spent the day along the lake front.  Thousands of gulls from Sandusky to
Cleveland.  Highlights:

East 72nd Street - 8 species of gull

Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull - several
Iceland Gull - several
Glaucous Gull - 6+
Lesser Black-backed Gull - several
Great Black-backed Gull - possible 100+

Rocky River Park

Greater Scaup
Black Scoter - 3 reported to me by an observer at Avon Lake; I did see them

Avon Lake

American Coot - 2
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull

Huron

Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull - 1 second year
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult and 1 second year
Great Black-backed Gull - 20+

Had a Common Redpoll at the Sandusky Wild Birds Unlimited store in town.
2 Sandhill Cranes flying north at the US 2 and US 250 intersection in
Sandusky.

Horned Larks, Lapland Longspurs, and Snow Buntings every where along back
roads in NW OHIO.


Tom Bartlett
Tiffin, Ohio
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