Rick Asamoto and I observed a Great Black Backed Gull (found by Rick) this evening at about 5:00 PM today in the Great Miami River in Downtown Dayton. The area is just upriver from the Stewart St bridge and down river of the Washington St bridge. Best views are at the Veterans Park which runs parallel to the river here. The gull is a 1st winter bird. Rick was able to get photos. This is the same location that Chris Zacharias had found a Glaucous Gull the last two nights and a Lesser Black backed Gull at least one night. There were dozens of Herring and a thousand Ring-billed Gulls present also. The Glaucous did not show up while we were there and we did not observe the Lesser Black Backed Gull in the crowd. -- John Habig Carlisle, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]