I stopped for an hour mid-day today, Oct 16, at the new Lake Erie Bluffs metropark in Lake County. This was my first visit and I was very impressed. There is lots to see now and I would expect this would be a great place for spring migrants, both song birds and those on the Lake. There are excellent trails through several habitats and several good lake-watching vistas atop the cliffs. I watched Lake Erie for ~20 minutes today from the bluffs. The best sighting was a red-throated loon just sitting on the lake not all that far offshore. It was pretty well in winter plumage, but I thought I could still see a small hint of red in the central throat. There were many small flocks of horned grebes - well over a hundred individuals in sight. In one area, a group of 6-10 common terns was flying over the water along with 25+ Bonaparte's gulls. In the edge woods, I saw LOTS of yellow-rumped warblers and one magnolia and one nashville. Kinglets of both species were abundant, as were song and white-crowned sparrows, plus one white-throated. It was a very nice, but short visit. Randy Rowe, Wooster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]