Larry Gara and I went out to the Caesar Creek beach again this morning and quickly found the Franklin's Gull. I managed to get some adequate pictures of it. They can be found at the following address: http://picasaweb.google.com/rdp1710/CaesarCreekFranklinSGull?feat=directlink Details are provided in captions. The beach did not yield anything else of note. The bird was still present when we left at 1000. It was being very faithful to the flock of ~200 ring-bills on the beach. We tried Mound Road, with no advance over the Solitary Sandpiper previously reported by Allan Clabon. The water needs to drop a little more in order to expose enough mud to bring in large numbers of shorebirds. We had the two Great Egrets which have been hanging around lately and 19 Killdeer, a paltry number for this location. Cheers, Bob -- 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]