I thought that with the incoming front, shorebirds might be moving today. I did not have time to head over to Conneaut so I decided to watch the lake in hopes of seeing a few migrating shorebirds. I saw none. However, I did have a LONG-TAILED JAEGER and SABINE'S GULL. I thought that was a fair trade off. In addition I also had one distant jaeger that went unidentified and two black terns. The long-tailed jaeger went by about 8:40 and was heading west. It was a juvenile bird.I could tell as it was approaching that it was a jaeger. As it got closer I initially had trouble seeing the white-flash on the upper wing and I couldn't see the underwing as it was flying very low. It quickly flew up when it came up on a ring-billed gull and the underwing flash was very evident. The bird was a dark grayish-brown. It immediately gave me a different tonal impression from the parasitics and pomarines I have seen. At this point I felt it was a long-tail. Compared to the ring-billed it was quite a bit smaller and trimmer. The wings were fairly narrow and had only a small flash of white on the upper surface. The undersides of the wing were dark with a distinct white flash at the primary bases. The belly was whitish and the flanks were distinctly barred dark and white. the tail was dark with little contrast in the rump from the tail and back. The head was light grayish. I couldn't tell if it had streaking or not. The bill seemed small, but I really didn't see it that well as I was looking at other characters on the bird. In all the bird was observed for only a minute or so. The Sabine's gull was a juvenile bird. The distinct wing pattern was easily observed. It passed by to the west about 8:20. The other jaeger was an all dark bird that was quite a way out. It was too far to see any field marks to ID it. Here is a list of birds that flew by between 6:30 and 10:00. Is it too early for waterbird surveys? I guess not. Mallard 3 Blue-winged teal 3 Double-crested cormorant 11 Bald eagle 1 immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER 1 immature JAEGER SPP. Bonaparte's gull 19 Ring-billed gull 679 Herring gull 31 SABINE'S GULL 1 immature BLACK TERN 2 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]