March 13 - 11am-2:30pm: Along the lakefront, any unprotected water was covered by broken ice, nearshore to ~100' out, with ring-billed gulls standing on it, bobbing up and down on the waves. Edgewater - breakwall/put-in west of the WWTP: Red breasted merganser - 1 Hooded mergansers - 7 Ringneck - 1 Buffleheads - 4 Scaup - 2 Mallards - 4 Geese - 2 Ring-billed gulls - Too many to count East 55th: Nothing besides ring-billed gulls, that I could see East 72nd - section of open water near shore, surrounded by floating ice: Redheads - 27 Canvasbacks - 7 Scaup - 3 Mallards - 2 One swan with dark bill - juvenile mute probably? - standing on ice In distance - Black ducks? - 2 Ring-billed gulls - Too many to count Whiskey Island beach: Buffleheads - 10 Song sparrows - 7 in scrub by beach Cuyahoga River mouth: Nothing on the water (bridge to lake), and just a few ring-bills flying Linda Sekura 216-598-0113 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]