Greetings birders - My father, Dave Brumfield, and I hit the lakefront this morning particularly hoping for the Snowy Owl at Burke Lakefront Airport. We scoured the entire public view of the airport and came up emtpy, but to reiterate what Gabe Leidy posted earlier: "the security guard reported seeing it at the west end of the airport both Thurs and Fri". Here's a rundown on highlights. Burke Lakefront Airport American Kestrel - 3 Rough-legged Hawk - 1 East 55th Marina Bonaparte's Gull - 700+ Sim's Park (Euclid) Black Scoter - 16 Surf Scoter - 4 Lesser Scaup - 7 Bufflehead - 6 Horned Grebe - 13 Common Loon - 1 Red-breasted Merganser - 600+ Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult basic, one 3rd year bird in the massive merganser/gull fishing horde offshore Whitehaven Memorial Park/Cemetery (SOM Center Rd) Cackling Goose - 1; quite cute Wendy Park/Whiskey Island Bonaparte's Gull - 1000+ Little Gull - one 1st year bird (nice dark "M" pattern on back) - Alas, we couldn't catch up with Gabe's Black-headed Gull which he had spotted earlier Great day on the lakefront! best of birding - Jen Jen Brumfield [log in to unmask] Sharon Center, OH _________________________________________________________________ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_112008 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]