Still at Headlands Beach SP, on the beach, when I left just before 11:00. Still returning to the same spot by the green upturned lifeguard chair. Also a couple of sanderlings w/ a semipalmated sandpiper. Sidelight, but so interesting. I was watching a buck moving along the tree line, when he turned, and at a run tore across the sand, scattering the flock of 500 gulls sitting on the beach (ringbills w/ a smattering of herring gulls) and then he plunged into the lake and swam out, and out, and out. I assume he is getting rid of the flies and ticks and numerous biting insects that must plague the deer. Never saw him return. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]