I birded Edgewater Park in Cleveland in the hopes of getting a lifer snowy owl but no joy. There was a flyover adult bald eagle, some hooded mergansers in the yacht club harbor together with a few red-breasted mergs and mallards. Gulls on the beach looked to be ring-billed with a lonely herring gull in the mix. More mallards near shore and one American black duck and an odd hybrid mallard. There were a couple more red-breasted mergs here. I drove by Burke but didn't know where to park so I didn't look for snowy's there. E. 72nd street Lakeshore Reservation was mostly empty but I did see a pair of horned grebes about 200 ft off the break wall opening from the power plant, bobbing in the waves. Alas snowy owls still elude me. Hard to believe a big white fireplug of a bird could be so hard to find! Chris Caprette ______________________________________________________________________ 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]