Howdy All, I arrived at the St. Marys Fish Hatchery this morning at about 7:30 am. Another birder from Detroit arrived just shortly before I did. We searched all the ponds and the eastern impoundments. I repeated this at least three times, and so did he. Jill Bowers showed up and also helped look, but we did not find the Sabine's Gull. I also checked the east side of the lake from the state park and the jetty at the marina at the northeast corner of the lake. There were gulls flying and feeding over the lake, but I did not find the Sabine's Gull. There were Herring and Ring-billed Gulls on the jetty at the marina. Other birders arrived, including Andy Bess also from the Cincinnati area, and others, and they were still looking when I left at about 9:40 am. It was a great run for this Sabine's Gull. Usually they are one-day wonders, thus the title "Will-'o-the-wisp." The one good thing about birding is that there will be another day or chance for such an exciting event. It is not a downer to have missed this bird, but is exciting that there may be another chance sometime in the future. Maybe the bird will show up somewhere south of Grand Lake St. Marys, like Buck Creek or Caesar Creek SP. Maybe it is still somewhere on Grand Lake St Marys. So, keeping on looking. One of the Willets was still present, along with Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least, Spotted, and Solitary Sandpiper, some Sanderlings, and Killdeer and Semipalmated Plover. There could have been more shorebirds present but I didn't do a very thorough search. Jay Jay G. Lehman Cincinnati, OH [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]