I went out to the beach at Buck Creek State Park to check on the Laughing Gull that Rick Asamoto reported last night. I found it on the beach with the flock of gulls. Bonaparte's Gulls were the most numerous this morning with many Ring-billed Gulls and the one Laughing Gull in breeding plumage. There were also 9 Caspian Terns and 2 or 3 Forster's Terns. Several cormorants were feeding on the lake and a single Horned Grebe was near the north end of the beach. Hundreds of swallows were flying over the lake. Most were Tree Swallows but there were also some Barn Swallows and a few Northern Rough-winged Swallows. Doug Overacker Springfield, 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]