I birded along the lake shore from Lorain to Sim's Park in Euclid today. My last stop was Sim's Park where I had 2 CAVE SWALLOWS. The birds showed up around 3:15pm and circled over me for about 15 minutes before heading west along the lake shore. Other highlights were a raft of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS also at Sim's Park and 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS at Avon Lake. There are a lot of gulls at both Avon Lake and Wendy Park/Edgewater including a lot of Bonaparte's Gulls. I could not pick any other gulls of interest at the two places (besides the 2 Lesser Black-backs at Avon and a few Great Black-backs at Wendy Park) but it is probably worth stopping at these two places if you are birding in the area over the next few days. Good Birding! -Ryan Steiner Smithville, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]