Spent the day along the lake front. Thousands of gulls from Sandusky to Cleveland. Highlights: East 72nd Street - 8 species of gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull - several Iceland Gull - several Glaucous Gull - 6+ Lesser Black-backed Gull - several Great Black-backed Gull - possible 100+ Rocky River Park Greater Scaup Black Scoter - 3 reported to me by an observer at Avon Lake; I did see them Avon Lake American Coot - 2 Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Huron Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull - 1 second year Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult and 1 second year Great Black-backed Gull - 20+ Had a Common Redpoll at the Sandusky Wild Birds Unlimited store in town. 2 Sandhill Cranes flying north at the US 2 and US 250 intersection in Sandusky. Horned Larks, Lapland Longspurs, and Snow Buntings every where along back roads in NW OHIO. Tom Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [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]