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Today was the best flight of the year for me. There was a great variety of
ducks and gulls with a number of rarities. Two harlequin ducks passed by to
the west. The first was a single and appeared to be a female. The second
was amongst a group of 6 bufflehead and was a young male. Two jaegers
passed by heading west. One was identified as a parasitic and the second
was further out and was not identifiable. The immature kittiwake passed by
heading west around 9:30 and less than ten minutes later another one passed
by. Some birds were hanging around feeding and I am assuming there was only
one bird, but there may have been two. The glaucous gull was a young bird
(1st/2nd year) that passed overhead. The common tern was unusual also. I
rarely get any terns after early September.
I quit watching at 10:30 because we had guests over. I tried occasionally
to see if anything was moving later in the day, but snow made visibility
next to impossible.
Lakeshore Waterbird Survey
North Perry, Lake County
November 16, 2008, 700-1030
Weather- cloudy w/ light snow
Winds- W 25-30+, Temp- 40-39 F
Barometer- 29.84-29.87,
Humidity-67-68, Dew point- 30-31
Waves- 10-12 feet, Flight direction- west
American black duck 2
Redhead 3
Lesser scaup 12
HARLEQUIN DUCK 2
SURF SCOTER 6
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1
Bufflehead 22
Common goldeneye 3
Hooded merganser 6
Red-breasted merganser 704
Common loon 15
Horned grebe 3
Dunlin 16
PARASITIC JAEGER 1
JAEGER SPP. 1
Bonaparte's gull 86
Ring-billed gull 1,790
Herring gull 112
GLAUCOUS GULL 1 1st
Great black-backed gull 7
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE 1 immature
COMMON TERN 1
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751
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