arrived @ boat launch @ Gordon @ 3:45 to very light grizzle, 67* and very strong winds from east (and slightly north) NOT MUCH!!! in the bay or the air over the bay were the following Red-breasted Mergansers - 6 Lesser Scaup - 3 Barn Swallow - 1 Great Crested Cormorants - 6 Gulls Ring-billed 25-ish Lesser Black-backed - 1 Turkey Vultures - 5 (flting westward - into the wind) Mallards - 2 Canada Geese - 14 on the road to 72nd Street Northern Flickers - 4 Red-winged Blackbirds - 7 European Starlings - 27-ish Common Grackles - 15-ish arrived on the west side of the Inner City Yacht Club (inside breakwall) Barn Swallow - 2 Tree Swallows - 2 ONLY 4 RB Gulls on docks today Canada Geese - 4 (2 nesting and their protectors) on the open water today in/above the water were RBMs - 25-ish GCCs - 8 RBGulls flying/swimming - 8 Canada Geese - 2 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]