best sighting was on the way today as I saw a single Great Egret off of 271 North behind a Progressive Bldg (the one that used to be a golf course on SOM) 2:20 Mayfield Village @ Gordon Park boat launch @ 2:30 51* decent breeze from east in the grass between parking lot + Dike 14 Ring-billed Gulls - 22 Canada Geese - 14 in the bay (anywhere i could see) Great Crested Cormorants - 7 Red-breasted Mergansers - 25-ish Buffleheads - 2 American Coot - 1 RB Gulls - 10 Herring Gulls - 3 Tree Swallows - 4 2:50 to west side of ICYC these were seen as I started to walk out on the breakwall - didn't make it far due to increasing wind and rain Canada Geese - 4 (1 still on nest) Yellow Warbler - 1 (glowed in the gloomy weather) Barn Swallows - 2 no birds in the bay on this side RBGs - less than 10 on docks in open water was VERY little (air or water) all were located in small group off of the point of Dike 14 RBMs - 25-ish GCCs - 10-ish a few fly-by gulls (nothing of note) buster back to school tomorrow = back after school ______________________________________________________________________ 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]