Things were very different at East 72nd today.  The south winds last night
opened the lake up. I didn't have high hopes, but with sunny skies and 40
degree temperatures it was an excuse to get out.  When I got there the lake
was opened up a lot more than at my house.  The only waterfowl present were
1 tundra swan, a few Canada geese, 3 lesser and 1 greater scaup, 3
bufflehead, and an American coot.  There were a few ring-billed gulls
feeding and that was about it up close.  Overhead, there was a steady flow
of gulls moving west.  It paid off to watch them.  In an hour and a half I
had 9 glaucous gulls, 3 Iceland gulls, 1 Thayer's gull, and 1 lesser
black-backed gull..  None of them hung around, but they gave some great
looks in today's sunlight as they passed overhead.  The only other birds of
note was an American kestrel out on the ice, a flyby peregrine falcon, and a
flyby adult bald eagle.

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

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