Hello all, Ben Nickley, Alex Nickley, and I had an Eared Grebe at 2pm today, Sunday, December 22, just east of the east breakwall at Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. The bird had dark auriculars, a peaked crest, a dark neck, a dark tip to the upturned bill, poofy white flanks, and was somewhat smaller than nearby Horned Grebes. Also present was a Red-necked Grebe, some Horned Grebes, and a Pied-billed Grebe, totaling four grebe species in view at once. Checklist with photos- http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16049569 The Le Conte's Sparrow continued in the central grasslands. Iceland and Glaucous Gulls were between E 72nd and Edgewater Marina. Good birding, Sean -- Sean M. Williams PhD Candidate Dept. of Zoology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 [log in to unmask] www.msu.edu/~will2424 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]