Greetings birders - Myself, Dane Adams, John Cameron, and Fred Riley birded the lakefront today from Headlands Beach State Park to Sim's Park in Euclid. Highlights included several White-winged Scoters (all three species of scoters, as well), Lesser Black-backed Gull, and fantastic numbers of Bonaparte's Gulls and Red-breasted Mergansers. A very blustery morning, with strong WSW winds, pushed gulls east, and for the most part, consensus from separate parties saw waterfowl pushing west. Gabe and Emil had a fantastic morning's watch from atop a bluff west of Headlands, in Willoughby, at Sunset Park (see his previous report on the list). We attempted (with fingers crossed) to pick up on a Little Gull (and Black-headed), as the throngs of Bonaparte's were erupting from the west and really booking it past us. Many would fly over the breakwall and land in Fairport Harbor - a great spot to check now for these rare gull species. Here's the run-down: Headlands Beach SP (and Fairport Harbor visible immediately to the east) Bonaparte's Gull - 4,000 Common Loon - 15 (flying relatively high overhead) Horned Grebe - 3 Red-breasted Merganser - 2,000 American Black Duck - 2 Common Goldeneye - 8 Bufflehead - 6 Hooded Merganser - 2 scoter species - 1 Eastlake Power Plant: Red-breasted Merganser - 3,500 White-winged Scoter - 3 (flybys on the horizon) Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult Bonaparte's Gull - 2,000 Sim's Park Black Scoter - 10 Surf Scoter - 1 White-winged Scoter - 1 Common Goldeneye - 22 Bufflehead - 8 Lesser Scaup - 3 Greater Scaup - 1 Horned Grebe - 7 Bald Eagle - 1 immature (fantastic display, dive-bombing the scoter group!) Pine Siskin - 1 flyover Best of birding - Jen Jen Brumfield Sharon Center, OH [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009v2 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]