The last couple weekends I have had the opportunity to check out the large concentration of Bonaparte's gulls at Lakeview Park in Lorain. What I found interesting was the high percentage of these birds that had active molt occurring in their flight feathers. I saw quite a few that had areas of half-grown feathers in the primaries and secondaries. At Conneaut yesterday I think I saw probably 400+ Bonaparte's gulls and not a single one was molting flight feathers. Evidently the birds at Conneaut were a different flock than the flock at Lorain. Wouldn't you think if you're seeing a high percentage of molting birds at Lorain, you'd see them at Conneaut also. Did the Conneaut birds originate from a different breeding area than the Lorain flock? They have a pretty large breeding range, ranging from Alaska to Quebec. Were they have different latitudes? It's kind of interesting. 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]