Karin Tanquist and I (Patrick Coy) had a productive Christmas day birding along the Lake Eire lakefront in Cleveland with 6 gull species and a modest but nice raft of Black Scoters. Highlights-only include the following... Rocky River Park: 12--Black Scoters, with 2 second yr males 9--Common Goldeneye 3--Black Duck Edgewater Park: 2--White-winged Scoter 8--Bufflehead 55th St (at the small marina between 55th and Burke Airport): 2 Coot 75 Bonaparte's Gull 72nd St" 2 Gadwall 1-Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull --Patrick Coy Peninsula, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]