> From dawn till now, 11:30 am, a mass movement of waterbirds on Lake Erie. This is a partial list. The totals will be reported tonight.
> 
> From Rocky River: (JB, Larry Richardson, Helen Taft) (flight direction west to east):
> Red-throated Loon (1) amongst 400+ Common Loons. Red-necked Grebe (1) amongst 600 plus Horned Grebes. Long-tailed Duck (1), Snow Goose (2), Pomarine Jaeger (1), White-winged Scoter (68), Surf Scoter (45), Black Scoter (48), Red Knot (1), Dunlin (900), and large numbers of Red-breasted Mergansers, Green-winged Teal and Lesser Scaup with fewer numbers of Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Northern Pintail, black ducks.
> 
> From Mentor: (Jerry Talkington, Ray Hannikman)
> Harlequin Duck (2), Red Phalarope (1), Parasitic Jaeger (1), Long-tailed Duck (4), Brant (10), plus mass numbers of scoters (over 100 White-wingers and counting), and merge and scaup.
> 
> Emil Bacik had TWO Red Phalaropes fly by Headlands lighthouse this am.
> 
> Thousands of Bonapartes on the lake now.
> 
> More totals soon. The strong NNE winds blasted open one of the flood gates.
> 
> JB
> 
> Jen Brumfield
> Cleveland, OH
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