I went to Sims Park in Euclid this afternoon from 1:15 to 2:30pm. Shortly after I arrived Bill Kinkead and Ken Shepherd joined me. These are the birds that I saw in the water except the Mergs: American Black Ducks 4 Surf Scoters 2 Black Scoters 7 (1m, 6f) Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 3 Red-breasted Mergansers (only few dozen up close-to the north far out several hundreds swirling around Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 55+ (many more were out there)most seen northwest of pier) Later at Villa Angela/Wildwood Areas in Cleveland Bonaparte's Gulls 45-50 Fox Sparrows (3 or 4 in Villa Angela, 1 in Wildwood Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]