I received a message from Bill Kencaid who stated he went to chase the Pacific Loon. He did not get the Loon however he did find 6 Willets at Caesar Creek. He asked me to post this. GB Bruce Miller Columbus, OH Web Photo Gallery: http://www.redtail.smugmug.com/ My Blog: http://redtail565.blogspot.com/ > Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 20:22:57 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [Ohio-birds] Pacific Loon: No Joy. Laughing Gull: Tally-Ho > To: [log in to unmask] > > Larry Gara and I lept out to Harveysburg Road overlooking Caesar Creek Lake > to have a go at the Pacific Loon reported this morning by Rick Asamoto. We > were joined in short order by Bob and Julie Foppe, Rick himself, John Habig > and Shane Eggleston, then Dan Sanders and several others. Pretty soon we > had a number of stellar birders equipped with absolutely superb > optics scanning the lake for the loon. Alas, it was not to be. We had four > or five Common Loons in a variety of plumages and five Double-crested > Cormorants in both juvenile and adult plumages, but no Pacific Loon. > > The day was not a total loss, however. Bob Foppe found a Laughing Gull in > definitive alternate plumage. Almost everybody had a look at it and we all > agreed on the large bill and the uniformly dark upper wing, lacking the > white bases on the primaries which distinguish the Franklin's Gull. Not a > bad consolation prize. > > Cheers, > > Bob > > PS: Just had a phone call from a usually reliable source reporting a > Bobolink out on Starbuck Road north of Wilmington. More news when it > breaks. > > > -- > Robert D Powell > Congress Farm Research Institute > Wilmington, OH, USA > [log in to unmask] > http://rdp1710.wordpress.com > > Nulla dies sine aves > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]