Yesterday afternoon, while traveling west over the Sandusky Bay Bridge, we spotted a very large gull, very white, and very black wings. Size and coloring was very obvious, it was sitting on one of the lights. Could this have been a great black-backed gull? Are they becoming more common here? Or were our eyes playing tricks? Also spotted in very low water between Catawba Island and Portage, off Rt. 53 causeway, 9 swans, 7 mute but 2 were tundra. And still hanging around 5-7 white egrets (If I were them, I would have left weeks ago....) Mary Krejci Catawba Island --------------------------------- Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]