The lakefront at Lorain was alive with activity. I looked for the little gull a bit with no luck. What I did find interesting was how much a lot of the Bonaparte's gulls were in active molt. A lot really looked odd flying with a lot of their flight feathers half grown. I went over to the impoundment and sat on the rocks on the north side for a couple hours. There were quite a few Bonaparte's gulls, ring-billed gulls, cormorants and terns flying west. The first jaeger I spotted was really far out and flying very low over the water. The buoyant flight made me think it might be a long-tailed, but it was just too far out. The second bird passed by about 5:30 and was an immature long-tailed jaeger, (light phase). It also was flying low heading west. After passing by me in swung through the northern end of the harbor and quickly exited over the west breakwall just west of the lighthouse. It disappeared after heading over the wall. There were a lot of terns flying west of the harbor. They were just too distant. There was a single Hudsonian godwit in the center of the impoundment. It was sitting on a small patch of mudflat. It was with 8 greater and 1 lesser yellowlegs, 11 short-billed dowitchers and several mallards. The godwit was sitting amongst the mallards and was partially obscured. I figured I'd get photos on my way out. I ended up watching the lake longer than I expected and when I was heading out, the godwit was gone. The only shorebirds were 2 greater and 1 lesser yellowlegs, and a single dowitcher. Of interest were the number of green darner and black saddlebags dragonflies flying west over the open lake. I figured that I saw well over 200. I also saw a couple monarch butterflies over the open lake. A lot of birds and insects were moving today. I watched the lake from my house for a couple hours this morning and by contrast saw very little. I saw a few Bonaparte's and ring-billed gulls and a couple terns. Nowhere near the number of birds in Lorain. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]