headed out birding with Haans today. Headlands @ sunrise - 42* strong winds 25 mph from west BIG waves! headed out to the jetty Ruddy Duck - 15+ Horned Grebe - 40+ Boneparte Gull - 800+ Red-breasted Merganser - 200+ Common Merfanser - 20+ Snow Bunting - 50-ish Common Tern - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 30-ish Ring-neced Duck - 30-ish Tree Sparrow - 3 unknown sandpiper - 2 we were here for 3 hours and were joined by Ray H for over an hour headed to Eastlake Power Plant on the way we were paralleled by an immature Bald Eagle for a mile (just before the Chagrin River) at the plant the waves were CRASHING HARD! Red-breasted Merganser - 200+ Bonies - 30-ish RB Gull - 50+ Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) there for 10-15 minutes headed to Sunset Park in Willoughby some fly-by RB Gulls a few Vs of RBMs a couple Bonies stay for 5 minutes headed to Sims Park (Euclid) Surf Scoter - 2 (beautiful) Black Scoter - 14 a few RB Gulls a few RBM fly-bys head to Wildwood (Cleve) Horned Grebe - 6 RB Guools - 20-ish Herring Gull - 1 Rock Pigeon - 1 head to Gordon Park only Mallerds in the bay (by boat launch) and a few flying RB Gulls Horned Grebe - 10-ish west of Inner City Yacht Club White-winged Scoter - 2 Black Scoter - 1 only a few flying RB Gulls lunch @ Johnny Mangoes head to Lakewood Park a few hundred Bonies out a few hindred yards a couple dozen RB Gulls a hundred-ish RBMs as well 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]