The gale force winds and cold brought large numbers of horned larks and snow buntings all over South Bass island. There were along the roadsides, at the Put-in-Bay Airport, Perry's Monument grounds, and especially in the fields near the South Bass Lighthouse-in same cases 200 at a time, other places 25-30 in clusters. A few lapland longspurs were among the larks and buntings. Snow buntings and horned larks were also seen along the edge of the cliffs on the west side of the island and in some cases flying over the jammed up cakes of ice. In the open water on the east side of the island, there were hundreds of common goldeneye as well as a few common mergansers, scaup, and bufflehead. As the ducks dove, the wind caught the spray and sent it skyward! Most gulls were sitting low on the ice-herring, ring-billed, and a few great black-backed. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]