Hey all - Spent a beautiful morning and afternoon along the lakefront. I began the day at Edgewater Park where I did not locate the Brant, at first, but did see 6 SURF SCOTERS and had a LAPLAND LONGSPUR fly in and land on the bluff. I returned later to see the BRANT. From there I proceeded to E. 72nd St. where the first-winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was already scoped out among the Bonaprte's Gulls. It was towards the west end of the flock and was still in this same general area when I returned later in the day. Sim's Park had a raft containing all three scoter species. I didn't get exact numbers but White-winged appeared to be the most common, followed closely by Black, with a couple Surfs in the mix. There were about 20 birds total. Finally, I discovered a MOURNING WARBLER on private property near Cleveland to round out the day. Given the time of year, I gave MacGillivray's very serious consideration, but the eye-ring was quite narrow and barely broken...and everything else seemed consistent with Mourning. It was an adult female. I will provide more details to those who are interested...I'm not sure what the late date for Ohio but this has to be close. Other birds in this area included Peregrine Falcon (1) and Winter Wren (1). Good birding - Gabe Leidy Hinckley, OH ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]