Several thousand gulls at Lorain harbor; most are hunkered down on the ice by 
the marina (visible from the marina parking lot or the parking lot of the 
wastewater treatment plant).  Mostly ring-billed, about 10% herring, about 30 
great black-backed.  Not much activity at the former "hot waters".  Waterfowl 
hunters are  along the breakwall but a few hundred Bonaparte's were swirling 
near the lighthouse.  Couldn't pick out anything but the named ones.

Dan Gesualdo arrived as I was leaving and tipped me off to a merlin at Lakeview 
Park on the west side of Lorain.  It was still perched when I got there but left 
after I'd watched it a while.

The Avon Lake power plant bay had ring-billed, herring, great black-backed, and 
one lesser black-backed gulls.

Craig Caldwell
Ohio Ornithological Society
Editor, The Ohio Cardinal

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