Kim, Mark, Bob, Connie and I got good looks at the red necked grebe from 11am-1pm Saturday -- he was quite curious about a small log and a Styrofoam block in the water and would swim over to investigate both from time to time, also swimming under the line of docks and then venturing out. Kim got a few reasonably good high-res pictures with her 400MM lens and 1.4X Canon extender. Easy in bins, but a scope helps a lot. Also counted 18 common loons in one strung-out group swimming around the western end of Dike 14. Otherwise, the usual gang of Bonaparte's gulls diving like so many hundreds of terns, and the other usual gulls. A pair of Marine-marked C-131 transports making low-level practice runs over the lakefront and onward to points east kept the noon hour lively. Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ Solon, Ohio 44139 Grid: EN91gj ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]