On Saturday afternoon I located an adult California gull among the ring-billed and herring gulls at East 72nd Street. The combination of the slightly "bluer" mantle and heavy streaking forming a near hood on the head made it fairly easy to separate from the other birds. Only a handful of Bonaparte's gulls were present; I did not see any white-winged gulls or obvious Thayer's. Good birding. Chris Spagnoli Lakewood ______________________________________________________________________ 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]