Sunrise @ Headlands! arrive @ 6:55 - 8:20 53* very strong winds from S-SW early, then just strong joined by Haans and Ray H Bonaparte's Gull - 400+ Horned Grebe - 40+ Ring-billed Gull - 150+ Ring-necked Duck - 10+ Red-breasted Merganser - 75+ Merlin - 1 Snow Bunting - 10+ Dark-eyed Junco - 4 Tree Sparrow - 2 Chickadees - a few Common Loon - 10+ Dunlin - 1 9:25 Eastlake Power Plant 56* with strong winds from S-SW RB Gull - 100-ish (on intake canals) rafting RG Mergs - 250+ Bonnies (mostly rafting) 100+ DC Corms - 20-ish (either on intakes or swimming near intake) many hundred RB Gulls working the water out farther west of the Plant 1 - Fly-by Adult Bald Eagle buster ps - behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday afternoon i counted 11 American Coots ______________________________________________________________________ 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]