Hi all,

         Spent the day at Headlands from 6:30 am until 4 pm. During this time I didn't really leave the breakwall so I don't know what was really going on inland, but I think I have a pretty good grasp on waterbird movement for the day. Ray Hannikman was there for about 3 hours this morning and a group of amish birders were there for about and hour and a half in the afternoon.  Almost all of the ducks were heading west while all the gulls seen were moving east.

  Here's the run down for the day:

  Snow Goose- Had 25 fly by while I was out there, consisted of 6 White and  19 Blue.
  Canada Goose - none moving on the lake, however a Bald Eagle scared up a few hundred
                          birds from the fields east of Fairport Harbor.
  Tundra Swan - 3 groups totaling 56 birds - all headed east.
  American Black Duck - 18 with a few Mallards mixed in.
  Mallard- 7
  Green-winged Teal - 31 mixed in among various flocks (Scaup, Mergansers, Mallards etc.)
  Lesser Scaup - 113
  Greater Scaup - 12
  Athya sp.- 75
  White-winged Scoter - 17 seemed like a high number came in several small groups -                                  heading east for some reason.
  Black Scoter - 5, 1 with 2 White-winged and one group of 4 birds. Also all heading west.
  Dark Scoter sp. - 12  too far out to tell if they were Surf or Black but they were heading west
  Long-tailed Duck - 1 male buzzed west late in the day - always a treat.
  Bufflehead - 42
  Red-breasted Merganser - about 900 birds total for the day
  Common Loon - 45+ most were heading south flying high overhead.
  Double-crested Cormorant - 316
  Bonaparte's Gull - between 5 and 600 were seen over the course of the day - no Little Gull
  Herring Gull - 36
  Great Black-backed Gull - 1
  Snow Bunting -6
  Horned Grebe - 0 (how?)

  Tomorrow, it's back out there to do it all over again.

  Good Birding,

  Phil Chaon


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