sSims Park in Euclid this morning had a lot of new variety. The lake was smooth as glass, SSE winds 13mph, 23F. Very different from yesterday. I was there from about 10:30 to 1:30pm. When I arrived at Sims with Jim McConnor and Anders Fjeldstad after being at East 72nd St for the Blackbrook Audubon walk we ran into Ray Hannikman, Jerry Talkington and Emil Bacik who were on the pier looking at the King Eider further west of the pier. (yea somebody confirmed my sighting) Later we walked to the far west end of the park from the high hill for a better view of the KING EIDER. Jerry finally realized there were two different first winter KING EIDERS because one had a different breast pattern than he had seen earlier from the pier. He would be looking at one saying it is diving now and I would say no - I am looking at it now in a different place. There was an adult Bald Eagle that Jerry, Emil and Chet saw trying to catch a male Red-breasted Merganser four different times. He would get it about 15 feet up and kept dropping it. He finally gave up. Delores Cole and Lisa Chapman arrived and saw the Eiders and then 24 Ruddy Ducks swam right into the cove by the shore after the ducks had been very far east of the pier earlier. Later when people started leaving I saw an immature Bald Eagle catching fish in the same area the adult Eagle had been. Right after I followed the Eagle for a few moments the last Eider disapeared so I left soon after that. Here is a list of some of the birds we saw today some of them counted by Jerry. Canvasback 20 Redhead 21 Lesser Scaup - dozens Black Scoter 3 Surf Scoter approx 30 White-winged Scoter 3 Common Goldeneye - didn't count- more than 160 Bufflehead - dozen or more Common Mergansers - approx 15 flying by Ruddy Ducks 24 Common Loon 1 (found by Jim) Bald Eagle 2 (adult & immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 seen driving into park American Coot 1 or 2 Great Black-backed Gulls - at least 10-12 Ring-billed & Herring Gulls Downy Woodpecker 1 Canada Geese & Mallards Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]