Hello Birders, As reported earlier, there was a juvenile Sabine's Gull at Metzger Marsh, Lucas Co., n.w. Ohio, this afternoon (Sunday Nov. 21). I found it a little before 3 pm, and it was still there about 5:15, as it was already starting to get dark. About ten people were able to get out and see it while I was there. The bird was spending most of its time resting on the water 100 - 200 yards offshore, just east of the fishing pier at the end of the road. A couple of times it flew far to the east along the shoreline, almost out of sight, but then returned to the area close to the pier. Several times it flew in along the pier and then east along the shoreline, affording very close looks. Since the bird was there for an extended period this afternoon and still present near nightfall, there's a chance that it will still be around tomorrow. Aside from the Sabine's, there were a few thousand Ring-billed and Herring gulls, and a few hundred Bonaparte's Gulls, in the Metzger area. A couple of flocks of Tundra Swans came over headed east, and a few mergansers were seen flying very far offshore. Also this afternoon, Greg Links saw a Gyrfalcon not far from the Ohio state line in southeast Michigan. As reported on Rarebird.org, it was "flying straight south along the shoreline of Lake Erie, barely treetop level over the warm water outflow at Consumer's Energy Power Plant at the end of Erie Road in southern Monroe county, MI." Greg reported that it kept going south toward the state line. It would be plausible for this bird to stick around the general area for a while, since there is a lot of food available in the form of large numbers of gulls and waterfowl. We should watch for this bird in n.w. Ohio, especially in the stretch between the Bayshore power plant just east of Toledo and the area of Sandusky Bay. Kenn Kaufman Oak Harbor, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]