Ashtabula: Walnut Beach A mound of ice blocked a safe look at open water. Ashtabula: Lake Shore Park Water open. Parking lot very icy. Hooded Mergansers Immature lesser and greater back gulls. Lake Road between Ashtabula and Conneaut: East of Turkey Creek where ODOT installed a guard rail Common Mergansers Golden Eyes Hooded Mergansers Conneaut Harbor: Water Open Parking lot icy Lesser Sculp Redheads Mallards and ring-billed sea gulls everywhere. Merry Christmas. Rick, Richard and Dick Oxley Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ______________________________________________________________________ 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]