I was at East 72nd this afternoon for about three hours. There were a lot of gulls with good numbers of the uncommon ones. I did see Ben's gull and did get some decent photos of it. It looks like a Nelson's gull to me, a hybrid between herring and glaucous. It has a very thick bill, pale mantle, and very clean head as in glaucous, and it has the wingtip pattern of herring. Other than the four common gulls (Bonaparte's-1, ring-billed, herring, and great black-backed (200+) there were the following: Glaucous gull- 6 - (2 1st year, 1 2nd year, and 3 adults) Iceland gull- 4 - (1 1st year, 1 2nd year, 1 3rd year, and 1 adult) Thayer's gull- 1 adult Lesser black-backed gull- 9 -(2 1st year, 1 2nd year, 2 3rd year, and 4 adults) Nelson's gull- 1 adult I also had a peregrine falcon fly by and about 30 common redpolls. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 440-259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]