Emboldened by Gabe Leidy's Sunday bonanza, I visited Spitzer Marina this morning. It's mostly iced over and the gulls were roosting in dense packs on the ice, facing the northwest wind and presenting a sea of gray backs. I picked out one glaucous and two lesser black-backed gulls and about 20 great black-backed were around the edges. Couldn't winkle out any of the more exotic specimens. Lots of mergansers in the open water of the harbor proper, plus some coots and a single pied-billed grebe. The US6 lift bridge is closed, they say for two days, so I didn't try to get to the old "hot waters" area on the west bank. It's not hot anyway; the power plant shut down some years ago and was demolished last year. Qué será. Craig Caldwell Westlake Northeast Regional Director Ohio Ornithological Society "Ohio's Birding Network" ______________________________________________________________________ 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]