Hello,

My son and I had an interesting and unsettling day of birding. To
echo Laura Gooch's post we witnessed what can only be described as
carnage. As can be seen in the photo in the link below, someone
apparently gunned their vehicle through a groups of Ring-billed Gulls
at the parking lot of the E. 55th Street Marina along the lakefront
of Cleveland. At least 22 Ring-billed Gulls were killed and at least
five maimed. I took the birds to the Cleveland Museum of Natural
History.

http://www.clebsch.com/bird/gulls/e55thRBGU2.jpg

We saw a Northern Mockingbird on the Shoreway Road Cleveland
Lakefront (just East of Burke):
http://www.clebsch.com/bird/NOMO12.7.08.jpg

Photo of tagged gull mentioned in my last post:
http://www.clebsch.com/bird/gulls/rbgullyellowtag.jpg

It was a beautiful day. With strong cold North winds and water spray
the conditions were challenging. Yet the wind direction brought the
gulls together in enormous concentrations...the most yet this year
for me in terms of Herring Gull density.

Best regards and good birding,

Hans Clebsch

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