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

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