A Columbus Audubon trip led by Earl Harrison and myself to the lake (ivory soap Bill) adds the following: East 72 was the best spot for Gull species (add 1 N. Pintail, 2 Ring-necked and Am Kestrel to other birds reported there) Avon Lake had the glaucous and perhaps other x specieis I'm not expert enough to comment on. Avon had a terrific number of canvasback, 1 Bald Eagle, nice groups of male goldeneyes, and male bufflehead's. Lakeview Cem. had the White-winged crossbills ~10 west of Garfield Monument as reported plus a pine siskin. The birds were cooperative enough for spotting scopes to observe their fascinating extraction of seeds. Despite a 30 min spotting scope "transect" of Burke Airport along adjacent road no snowy owl (1 tundra swan, a horned lark and suspect kestrel) Michael Packer Columbus --- On Sat, 1/31/09, John Pogacnik <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: John Pogacnik <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [Ohio-birds] East 72nd, Cleveland, 1/31 To: [log in to unmask] Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 10:01 PM I stopped at East 72nd this afternoon for a few hours and it was great. There was a nice mix of gulls and ducks there and they were all pretty close. There were at least 8 glaucous gulls, 7 Iceland gulls, 2 Thayer's gulls, and 3 lesser black-backed gulls. In addition there was one Nelson's gull and three different great black-backed x herring gulls. The Nelson's was a 3rd cycle bird. All of the great black-backed x herring gulls.were adults. Two were the typical ones we have been seeing. One had a lot more head streaking than the other. The third bird was a lot darker and had very little head streaking. Ducks present were mallard, canvasback, redhead, greater and lesser scaup, common goldeneye, and bufflehead. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]