brain fart - COMMON TERN (don't know why i put Caspian (dreaming??) so sorry!! it still was pretty cool!!! buster From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Gordon Park Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:21:03 -0400 11:00 today 48*, but chilly - winds out of SOUTH means mass evacuation! - bay is VERY calm From launch out into bay Bufflehaed - 3 Lesser Scaup - 2 Wood Duck - 2 Mallard - 4 Great Crested Cormorants - 11 Red-breasted Mergansers - 8 Ring-billed Gulls - 30+ Red-tailed Hawk - 1 (fly over to scare off gulls + bay) Turkey Vulture - 1 11:20 @ west side of Inner City Yacht Club These birds were seen walking out on the breakwall Horned Grebe - 1American Coot - 1 Great Blue Heron - 1 Canada Goose - 6 (2 on nests for over a week now) Gulls (flying/swimming/on docks/posts) 30+ 20-ish Ring-billed 8-ish Herring @ 11:30 Great Blue Herons - 13 flew in from the east to Dike 13 11:40 looking to open water RBM - 4 GCCs - 25+ Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 Caspian Tern - 1 (fly by) @ 11:50 a LARGE "kettle" of Turkey Vultures circled in from south of the freeway heading NW - 32 were counted in the thermal - about 5 minutes later, another group of 17 followed as we were departing 2 "lines" of GCCs flew from east to west - the first had 18, the second has 22 On a note not to do with Gordon Park - my tube feeder of hulled sunflower seed just off of my deck in Gates Mills hosted 17 Redpolls in the early afternoon today! buster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]