I checked out the Avon Lake Pier/Power Plant section of Lake Erie this morning. The kind folks of the Black River Audubon Society were also there for a field trip and let me join them - thanks again everyone! The species we saw included: Ring-billed gulls Herring gulls Gr Black-backed gulls Mallards Black Ducks Buffleheads Common Goldeneye Canvasbacks Redheads Lesser Scaup Cormorant Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle - perched on the ice where the open lake started Patty McKelvey Sheffield Village, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]