A nasty morning on the lakefront yielded a few nice surpises while walking around the impoundment. The gulls were out a couple hundred yards from the breakwall and mostly flying east to west. A duck hunter in a motor boat kept it a mostly duck free zone. Most of the sparrows were observed on the trail, on the west side of the impoundment. Location: Lorain Impoundment Observation date: 11/16/08 9:30am - 12:00 Number of species: 20 Canada Goose X Tundra Swan 17 Mallard 2 Red-breasted Merganser 200 Ruddy Duck 1 Double-crested Cormorant 350 Bonaparte's Gull 500 Ring-billed Gull 300 Herring Gull X Downy Woodpecker 1 Carolina Wren 2 American Tree Sparrow 15 Chipping Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 8 Dark-eyed Junco 15 Snow Bunting 3 American Goldfinch 2 See you on the trails, Chris Pierce N. Olmsted, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]