Greetings birders - A lakefront birding trip, with 10 participants, found a number of great birds today, with highlights of a single BRANT and a mixed flock of BLACK SCOTERS and SURF SCOTERS. There was a fair amount of waterfowl movement, with several flocks of distant scaup, mergansers, and bufflehead skirting over the lake. Here's the run-down: ROCKY RIVER PARK (Beach Cliff Drive, Rocky River): BRANT - 1 (single bird flying west; attempted to declare "land ho" west of Bradstreet's Landing) Lesser Scaup - 8 Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 1 Red-breasted Merganser - 3 Ring-billed, Herring, and a handful of Bonaparte's Gulls Snow Bunting - 4 (early flybys) Pine Siskin - 8 (2 different flocks) CAHOON PARK (by Huntington Beach Reservation) Red-breasted Merganser - 15 LAKEWOOD PARK (Lakewood) Gulls beginning to be numerous Eastern Phoebe - 1 Pine Siskin - 6 SIM'S PARK (Euclid) Black Scoter - 14 Surf Scoter - 6 Red-breasted Merganser - 100+ Lesser Scaup - 2 American Black Duck - 3 (scoters very easily found and seen very well) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 *Thanks to Nancy Anderson for updates on the scoters at Sim's. best of birding - Jen Jen Brumfield Sharon Center, OH [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298556/direct/01/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]