After hearing of Dean Ware's good fortunes at Wheatley Harbour, I headed out there myself this morning with my brother Robert. While unable to locate any white-winged gulls, I did find a first winter Lesser Blackbacked Gull loafing in the marina with a bunch of Ring-billeds and Herrings, and had 1-2 possible Thayer's (I could not nail all five characters to confirm the ID). The female White-winged Scoter was present but scared off with the other waterfowl when a fishing boat came in. We also found the adult Red-shouldered Hawk perched in a tree north of Hillman Marsh. At Hillman, in addition to the birds Dean posted, we were able to get 3 Northern Pintail and 8 Snow Geese. Good birding! Randy Horvath, Windsor <snorovich@hotmail.com> _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca "Randy Horvath" <snorovich@hotmail.com> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.