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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]