On an early trek down the beach, there was a single Franklin's amongst the plethora of Ring-billed and several Herring Gulls. The vast majority of the flock headed straight over to the marina from where they were resting overnight, so I had a smaller sample size (100 birds, total, I would guess.). Spotted, this morning (7:15a - 8a): Kildeer Green Heron Great-blue Heron Ring-billed Gulls Franklin's Gull Herring Gulls Double-crested Cormorants RW Blackbirds Am Goldfinch Eastern Meadowlark Happy birding, Phil ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]