Hi all,

After a rainy and otherwise uneventful drive around Franklin Co. looking
for Snowy Owls, we stumbled up the SWACO Landfill gulls taking an afternoon
break on the small pond NE of where London-Groveport Rd. crosses Interstate
71.

A 1st cycle Lesser Black-backed Gull dropped in as we were about to leave,
took a bath, rested on the ice for a minute or two, then circled up and
headed back towards the landfill.

Photos of the bird are at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15964403. Hopefully it spends
some time a bit farther north tomorrow, and makes an appearance for the
Columbus CBC! :-)

Good birding,
-Paul Hurtado

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Paul J. Hurtado
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/

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