At the sand spit on Friday my partner and I observed a single gull with a black hood among the Bonaparte's Gulls... would it be 100% safe to say we saw the Black-headed Gull? Not knowing much about gulls, I thought it was just another Bonaparte's with the hood fully colored. We also saw 2 Spotted Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, Sanderlings, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Caspian Terns. Around the marsh there were 2 Great Egrets, Willow Flycatchers, Warbling Vireo, and lots of Yellow Warblers. Sean Artman Rock Creek, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]