Spent 1 1/2 hrs at the Harveysburg Rd. terminus and the beach today, with no Pacific loon seen. I remember seeing one at the same spot in 1996. There were only two common loons present, but lots of horned grebes and Bonaparte's gulls. Apparently Pacific loons may, once they adopt a wrong-way migration, adapt to wintering along the Atlantic coast; one discussed on the Cayuga mailing list could be returning for the third year in a row-- http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html . These are quite beautiful birds in breeding plumage, and maybe some day one will show up here in spring. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]