Hi everyone, This evening I made a quick stop at the beach at Alum Creek State Park and was happy to locate a cooperative first winter FRANKLIN'S GULL among the RING-BILLED and HERRING GULLs. Pictures can be viewed at the link below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/ Good birding! Mikey -- Mikey Lutmerding Croom, MD ______________________________________________________________________ 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]