Hi Everyone, Beth and I visited Gordon Park this morning (Cleveland waterfront)‹we got there about 10:30 in brilliant sunshine and cold, wit winds picking up from the west. I mention the wind because when we arrived, the area off the Gordon park parking lot was almost entirely open, with just a few bits of ice floating here and there (the marina and basins were frozen, of course). By the time we left, wind-blown ice had filled in almost the entire area, driving away the large numbers of ducks that had been present. We had: Ring-billed Gull‹ xxxx Herring Gull‹xx Lesser Scaup‹ xxx Greater Scaup‹ 4 Common Goldeneye‹ xx Bufflehead‹ 6 Mallard‹ xx American Black Duck‹ 1 Redhead‹ xx Canvasback‹ xxx Canada Goose‹ xx The 55th Street basin and the area around Cleveland Public Power were frozen over Other birders reported having seen a Peregrine Falcon, a Common Merganser and a couple of Hooded Mergansers. I was interested to see not a singly Red-breasted Merganser... Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cleveland Hts ----- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] 216-932-2753 www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan Please note my new email address: [log in to unmask] Please change your address book. Thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]