At Hoover Reservoir today, among what seemed like thousands of ring-billed gulls, I saw a yellow-billed, black-legged, solid black wing tipped gull like bird. As the Audubon Master Guide to Birding states "winter adults have a gray suffusion across the back of the head and nape," as this bird did. Could it have been a winter version of a black-legged kittiwake? In studying the guides....I don't know what else it could have been. I hope someone else sees it. It was flying on both sides of the dam...even sitting in the water for a while, where I could see its black legs paddling along. I think the previously seen immature blacked legged kittiwake could not have grown up this fast. Dale Brubeck Worthington, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]