Eddie Huber, Matt Stickel, and myself birded the north ends of Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake including the dams yesterday, March 22nd, in hopes of finding some of Paul Lehman's good birds from Tuesday. We were successful in finding only the first-year Glaucous Gull at Kentucky Dam, but we had a nice day of birding with the following highlights: 16 species of waterfowl with most not in large numbers and nothing rare among them. A flock of about 150 Red-breasted Mergansers on Barkley from both Boyd's Landing and the end of Green Road was nice; the colder temps and north breeze made IDs out in both lakes challenging to say the least. Loons/grebes ... only the common three seen with about 50 Common Loons (many in nice plumage) scattered about Kentucky Lake and some Horned Grebs coming into nice breeding plumage, mostly off the Kentucky dam area. American White Pelicans ... probably 250 below Barkley Dam ... quite a sight mixed in with dozens of shiny black Double-crested Cormorants and hundreds of gulls; there were probably only an additional 150-200 above the dam with it way above summer pool and no loafing bars exposed. Double-crested Cormorants ... probably in exccess of a few thousand seen with most blanketing the trees of the Kuttawa heronry island and in a massive raft nearby; also many above Barkley Dam. Black-crowned Night-Herons ... at least a dozen flying around the Kuttawa heronry island; seemingly disoriented by all the corms! Franklin's Gull ... a gorgous adult at Barkley Dam (nice photos by Eddie) Bonaparte's Gulls ... some several hundred or so on the day with only a few with complete black hoods; most were below Barkley Dam and loafing above; some at Ky Dam Herring Gulls ... maybe up to 50 at Barkley Dam and probably 150 in the vicinity of Kentucky Dam Glaucous Gull ... first-year bird first found near one of the buoys above Kentucky Dam by Matt; then seen foraging below Kentucky Dam, mostly soaring and coursing back and forth in the breeze Lesser Black-backed Gull ... 2 adults at Barkley Dam and at least 1 and maybe a second first-year bird below Kentucky Dam. Oddities ... we spent much time with an adult gull at Barkley Dam that caught my eye as a California; it had long wings and bill and yellowish legs, but the back was not darker than the other gulls and it was as large as Herrings; we finally got it to fly up to the lock where we found it had a light eye; not sure why it had such long wings and a long bill with black mark distal of the red spot and yellowish legs, but we got some decent photos for others to review. My best guess is some sort of anomalous Herring, but a hybrid could be a possibility. At Kentucky Dam there was also one of the troublesome Herring x Thayer's looking first-year birds that just is too pale in the wing tips for a Herring but just isn't good enough for a clear-cut midwestern Thayer's. I wish I knew if these were hybrids or not ... there is at least one every year or so ... Also at Kentucky Dam was a leucistic first-year Ring-billed Gull that was quite ghostly, with all darkish feathering lightened to medium to light gray-brown. Swallows ... are in in force with all but Bank seen; lots of Trees with martins and Cliffs pretty numerous and a few Barn and Rough-wings in the mix. The COLD north wind had them hugging the water. Passerines .. also had a Pine Warblers, a few Chipping Sparrows and Red-breasted Nuthatches, and a Louisiana Waterthrush singing at Boyd's Landing. Bpb, Frankfort