Quick stops at Cleveland lakefront:

East 72nd lakefront:
Red-breasted mergansers:  ~500-600, more in distance
Ring-billed gulls:  ~20% of "bird content"
Plus 2 floating gulls that had black around the lower half of head -
Bonaparte's?

Whiskey Island beach:
Red-breasted mergansers:  ~1,000, more in distance
Ring-bills again - didn't count
Didn't check every single duck and gull


West side of WWTP:
Red-breasted mergansers:  XX
Ring-bills


West end of Edgewater:
3 bufflehead pairs
3 scaup? ringnecks?


Linda
216-598-0113



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