Colleague and supernaturally eagle-eyed Jen Brumfield and I headed out of the office for some lakefront birding early this afternoon while the sun was still out. Location: Avon Lake power plant Other observers: Chris Knoll, Mark Shieldcastle Highlights: Ring-billed Gull - abundant Herring Gull - abundant ICELAND GULL - (4 total) one adult, at least three 1st-winter birds GLAUCOUS GULL - (4 total) at least two adults, at least two 1st-winter birds THAYER'S GULL - one stunning adult Lesser Black-backed Gull - one adult Great Black-backed Gull - nearly 200 Canvasback - at least 500 Common Merganser - 1 Ring-necked Duck, Redhead, Lesser and Greater Scaup, Bufflehead, American Black Duck, Common Merganser, Mute Swan aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Louisa J. Kreider, CIG Interpretive Technology Specialist/Division Analyst Cleveland Metroparks 11350 Broadway Ave. Garfield Heights OH 44125 (216) 341-9225 www.clemetparks.com P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message and any response to it may constitute a public record and thus may be publicly available to anyone who requests it. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]