I live in Avon Lake and have made a half dozen trips to the power plant to see the jaeger with no luck until today. It was so windy and cold I almost went home discouraged again today. A man that was there said it seems to reappear about every 45 minutes. We noticed that it flies straight north of the pier a few hundred yards where it is harder to find and spends some time out there before coming back in toward the pier. The bird is very dark. Much darker than the darker gulls. If you have not seen it yet I suggest waiting in your car in the parking lot with a view of the end of the pier. Eventually it will come in close to the pier. When it flies over a gull in the water they gulls let out a yelp before it even gets very close. I wonder if this is instinct or learned behavior. These lake gulls have probably never seen a jaeger before either. There were not nearly as many gulls today as in the past week. Most bird movement was from west to east. Some hunters were shooting from the break walls by the power plant and that scared up a lot of gulls that were right in the discharge stream. A few ducks flew by that the hunters shot at but I could not tell them what they were. The police showed up. It is illegal to discharge a gun in the city limits of Avon Lake and I have seen the local paper's police blotter mention hunters getting cited for shooting from the power plant's break walls. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]