While over fishing for the day, I stopped at Walnut Beach park (west side of town) and Ashtabula Township park (east side of town) to scan Lake Erie. Certainly lots of horned grebes everywhere. I saw a few common loons both places. At the Township park, there were four surf scoter females/immatures. Also stopped at Sims park in Euclid on the way home. Lots of horned grebes and red-breasted mergansers, along with a few common loons. Not far east of the fishing pier, there was a nice group of 25 black scoters, that included one full-plumaged male with orange bill. Nice to see the scoters today. 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]