The gulls at East 72nd Street were spectacular today in number. I however don't think the variety was as good as the last couple days. There were some pretty incredible feeding frenzies where it was difficult to pick out the uncommon birds because the birds were so thick. There were at least 10 glaucous gulls of all ages, at least 8 Iceland gulls (including one dark eyed adult Kumlien's), 15+ lesser black-backed gulls, but only a single Thayer's gull. I was unable to relocate the 3rd year California gull from yesterday. There was also a probable Nelson's gull. Also of interest were a couple extremely cooperative snow buntings. It is very interesting the number of non-adult lesser black-backed gulls. In past years you could find them if you looked. This year they seem to be every where you look. One one point in time Friday I had 3 1st winter and 1 second winter within ten feet of each other. It will be interesting in coming years to see if this trend continues. If it does we will mention the five common species were present and the lesser black-backed will be the fifth along with great black-backed, herring, ring-billed, and Bonaparte's. The WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL was present at my feeders in North Perry both yesterday and today. Yesterday it was seen by Emil and Brenda in the morning. Today I saw it around 8:30. It came in with a group of 10 house finches. It remained in a spruce tree and never came in to the feeders. This afternoon it was seen again. Again it was with the house finch flock and this time it fed on the ground at my feeders near the house. I also had two pine siskins and a single common redpoll today. I also had a group of 40+ common redpolls feeding in the alders along the cliff. Unfortunately they never made it to the feeders. I have not had any waterbird surveys due to ice on the lake out here. 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]