The gray catbird seen at my feeders on Friday showed up once on Saturday and was not seen on Sunday. There is a fair amount of fruit along the cliff so it is probably staying there. On Saturday very few birds came to the feeders and Sunday the feeders were really loaded with birds. No redpolls were seen either day. I saw no siskins Saturday, but there were a couple yesterday. The two towhees are the only birds that have been regular. They were here both days. There was no waterbird survey as the lake was mostly ice covered both days. On Saturday the lake was frozen for about 3/4 of a mile. Yesterday it started to break up and this morning there is a lot of open water. Satellite maps are showing that the lake is frozen from the islands west and along the shore. The middle is still pretty much open. The warming trend later this week will probably break up the ice more. What this means is unless there are a lot of fish, dead or alive, at East 72nd I doubt that things are going to pick up there much this week. Yesterday afternoon at East 72nd there was adult glaucous and lesser black-backed and a fair number of the other common gulls. 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]