Hello! Sorry for the late post (late night last night) but yesterday I finally had an opportunity to drive up to Avon Lake to try to see the Pomarine Jaeger. When I arrived around 2 PM, I met Dan Moser who informed me that the bird was sitting out on the water just a bit NW of the pier as reported to him by a couple of departed birders. Almost immediately, I found the bird in my scope and after about 10 minutes, it got up and flew directly at us. Upon arriving near the pier, it flew and swooped in a somewhat circular manner around us with the end of the pier as the center point. At times, it flew directly over our heads within 20 feet or so. It occasionally would land on the water near the end of the pier before some gulls would harass it and it would take flight again. A nice gentleman from Kentucky visiting his daughter in Avon Lake arrived and was afforded similar views before I left. I then drove over to East 72nd Street to try to get an hour or so of birding in before dark. There were a few thousand Bonaparte's Gulls resting on the water in a somewhat tight group somewhat segregated from the other gulls. From the small bridge over the outlet, I scoped the closer portion of the floating flock and within seconds saw a Black-Headed Gull sticking out like Rudolph with its cherry-colored beak. I did not find Little or other Black-Headed Gulls within the flock but the majority of the flock extended out farther from the shore making identification dubious at best. I was not able to locate any other rarities in a somewhat quick scan of the other gulls (Ring-Billed, Herring, Black-Backed) in the area. I thought I might have observed a Thayer's Gull but right as I was trying to get it in my scope, a jet plane closely overhead scared up the flock and I wasn't able to relocate it before dark. Rob Lowry Powell, Ohio **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]