After 5 unsuccessful attempts to find them this year, White-winged Crossbills finally graced me with their presence at the Green Lawn Cemetery area 77 sweetgum trees. They arrived about 10:40am, posed for photos, and were still there feeding when I left around 11:30. Also in the cemetery: Pine Siskins, Merlin, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, gobs of Red-breasted Nuthatches and a lone Myrtle's Yellow-rumped Warbler (area W in the NW corner of the cemetery). A complete checklist from Green Lawn is at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12619674. I'll embed a few photos in that checklist later tonight. Just before lunch, the lower Scioto Audubon Metro Park held one Bill Whan (my FOY sighting!) and a good number of Ring-billed gulls and about a dozen Herring Gulls (1st - adult basic plumages) resting on the water out from the boat launch (see map and full checklist at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12620472). This could be a great place to look for black-backed and white-winged gulls mid- to late-afternoon, given that a decent number of Herring Gulls were around. Lastly, while driving across campus around 2pm, there were 2 Black-crowned Night Herons just upstream of the "old" roost site across from the Drake Student Center. Good birding, Paul Hurtado ______________________________________________________________________ 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]