2:40 at the boat launch - 40* strong 15 mph winds from NE Creeped up in my car to LOTS of birds near corner (trying not to scare them away, so did some looking from inside car) These are the birds seen looking east toward Dike 14 and north out into the bay - Horned Grebe - 1 Eared Grebe - 1 Red-breasted Mergansers - 100+ Double Crested Cormorants - 30+ Blue-winged Teal - 3 (2 males) Wood Ducks - 3 (2 males) Canada Geese - 25+ Gulls (flying, swimming andsleeping in green between parking lot and Dike 14) 200+ 20+ Great Black-backed Gulls 80+% Ring-billed - the rest Herring On the rocks or in trees above the "tire" on Dike 14's shore were - Great Egrets - 12 Great Blue Herons - 8 2:55 over to west side of Inner City Yacht Club - everything here was seen from the dock area south to the inner breakwall 100+ RBMs 20-ish GCCs Mallards - 4 Canada Geese - 8 Mute Swan - Horned Grebes - 2 Gulls on the docks and posts today 15+ Great Black-backed gulls 100+ of RBs and Hs (RB 80%+) NO black faced gulls today In the farthest NE corner of the breakwall (where it curves back toward the shore - seemed to be the best "hiding place" today from the wind ) was - Horned Grebes - 18 Buffleheads - 2 Lesser Scaup - 4 Hooded Mergansers - 2 Out north of the breakwall toward open water (more congregated tighter to Dike 14 today as very few birds truly in "open water") RBMs - 150+ GCCs - 30+ Gulls - 75-ish (nothing out of ordinary) buster ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]