i must start by stating that @ 6:49 this morning i saw one of the willoughby hills bald eagles "sunning" him/herself just above his/her nest on my way to work. after school to gordon park 4:05 @ boat launch 52* (feels colder) breeze out of northeast Bay Red-breasted Mergansers - 5 (all female) Bufflehead - 1 (male) Canada Geese - 22 Barn Swallow - 1 Ring-billed Gulls - 20+ 4:15 west of ICYC Great Crested Cormorants - 3 Canada Geese - 6 (plus 2 goslings) Red-breasted Mergansers - 7 (only 1 male) Green Heron - 1 Turkey Vultures - 7 (in kettle over Dike 14) Barn Swallows - 6 Song Sparrows - 2 American Coots - 3 <50 Gulls out and about (all Ring-billed) time to check out a new place - headed a few miles east to euclid beach. i walked up the main sidewalk and up the sidewalk above the beach and headed west to the peir-like steps and then down to the beach which i went to the end of the trailer park to the east. Barn Swallows - 8 Veery - 1 Palm Warbler - 1 Pine Warbler - 1 White Crowned Sparrows - 3 Chimney Swifts - 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Beach - in water Red-breasted Mergansers - 2 Ring-billed Gulls - 41 down to the rock hall @ 6:00 Barn Swallows - dozens Tree Swallows - dozens both seemed to be reaping the benefits of the current grass cutting going on American Coots - 4 (in inner harbor) 8:00 Rock Hall still have the dozens of Barn and Tree Swallows and now add 4 or 5 "old sam peabody" singers!! final note is that i saw chimney swifts pretty much non-stop from gordon park thru bratenahl all the way to euclid beach - twittering and flapping the whole way! 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]