I was an unopened part of our future Lake Erie Bluffs Park in Painesville/Perry Townships along Lake Erie yesterday (4/10) with Paul and Susie Belanger. There were a lot of songbirds and gulls moving along the lake heading east. There were hundreds of blackbirds and robins. There was also a good flight of northern flickers, mourning doves and a other songbirds. The gull flight was made up of mainly immature herring with a small number of ring-billed gulls. Of note with the gulls was a third cycle NELSON'S GULL (Glaucous x herring hybrid). Also of note were a merlin, 3-4 American kestrels hunting the area, 2 pine warblers. in the wet woods a lot of the warblers and kinglets were feeding on the ground, giving some great looks. There were a lot of sapsuckers in the woods also. Unfortunately around 10:00 the wind switched to the north and shut the migration of completely. We just made it back to the cars as the heavy rain hit. John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]