Wasn't familiar with that area of Buck Creek. Thanks Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 23, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Brian Menker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > There were 2 American White Pelicans sitting on a bar near the islands at the north end of the lake at 3 pm. I saw them from the New Moorefield access (Temple St. Off of Moorefield Road). > Later at about 6 pm I was at the marina looking through lots of gulls coming in to roost on the gravel bar. Larry Jeanblanc photographed a Greater Black-backed Gull there earlier in the day. > There were many Ring-billeds, half as many Bonaparte's and a dozen Herrings, but no Black-backed. There were 100 or so Red-breasted Mergansers with a few other ducks sprinkled in. The two Pelicans came flying in from the north and landed near the action for a couple minutes. They took off just as a heavy snow squall started and flew back toward the north past a young Bald Eagle. > > Brian Menker > Dayton/Springfield > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]