I walked along the bike path in the Ohio and Erie Canal Reservation from Bacci Park to the fishing pond near the RR bridge. Lots of birds out today in the relatively warm weather. The "best" birds were near the waste water treatment outlet in the Cuyahoga River: 3 Common Goldeneye (1 male, 2 female) 2 Hooded Merganser (1 male, 1 female) Maybe 200 mallards close to and just down river from the outlet Maybe 300 cormorants farther down the river from the mallards 1 adult and 1 immature Bald Eagle perched in the big cottonwoods near the river 1 Peregrine Falcon on a power line tower across/west of the river near the outlet 1 American Kestrel on a power line tower near the treatment plant 2 red-tailed hawks perched in the trees near the outlet (I am guessing that the predators were there for the ducks.) Other birds: 5 Northern Mockingbirds 1 American Kestrel just across Canal Road from Bacci Park 2 Carolina wrens I also saw some gulls that were smaller than the ring-billed gulls. But, they may have just been small ring-billed gulls. If someone with better gull ID experience visits the area around the waste water treatment outlet, maybe they could keep their eyes on the gulls. There are a lot of them. At first I thought one was a Bonaparte's because of the size. But, after watching it with my binoculars, it looked like a small ring-billed gull. I also saw what could have been a Cackling Goose in the river near the outlet. It was near some Canada Geese. It was significantly smaller and had a very stubby bill. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]