Today at Lorain Harbor there were a lot of large gulls crowded amongst the Spitzer Marina boat docks. Including the three Bonaparte's that Chuck Slusarczyk Jr. observed here earlier, there were nine gull sp. totaled today: CALIFORNIA 2 2nd & 3rd-cycle Thayer’s 1 ad Iceland 2 2nd-cyc & ad Lesser Black-backed Gull 13 Glaucous 1 1st-cyc Emil had this bird after I left on the west side of the harbor There are photos of the California and others, and full description, on the blog site: http://northnw.wordpress.com/ Good birding! Gabe Leidy Sheffield Lake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]