Greetings, Gull-watching conditions are very good at E. 72nd Street in Cleveland now, as a growing ice shelf has brought many of the birds in close. I spent an hour there this afternoon and counted: GLAUCOUS GULL, 5 (1 adult, 1 second cycle, 3 first cycle) ICELAND GULL, 2 (1st cycle) LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, a lot! Conservatively, there were 10 3rd-cycle or older LBBG's. I didn't spend any time looking for 1st year birds amongst all the young Herrings. BONAPARTE'S GULL, ~200 mostly keeping to themselves in a tight flock at the western breakwall. Numbers up from a couple days ago. good birding, Ben Winger Cleveland Heights p.s.--have any gmail users out there been able to set up a filter for this Ohio-birds listserve? I can't seem to get it to work. Please reply privately if you know the trick. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]