The weather is so bad along the lake tonight that I saw gulls walking across lake road to the south side of the street. My neighborhood had gulls standing in the streets too. I have never seen this before. Even when the wind was howling and the temperature was zero degrees a few weeks ago the gulls were casually floating in the lake or riding wildly on the wind. Below large trees the piles of ice that were shaking lose from the trees looked like thick piles of broken glass after a tornado or car crash. Pieces of the ice were being dashed against my car as I drove down Lake Road. I just bought the car last night and I was thinking I should have bought the prepaid paintless dent repair service. Hail storms are not as bad as this freak storm of slush and shards of fractured ice. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]