The strong northeast winds opened a narrow gap in the lake at my house in
North Perry.  The open water attracted quite a few ducks and gulls.
Although diversity was low there were lots of birds.  The best bird was a
red-necked grebe that was seen briefly.  It was doing a lot of diving and
after watching it a few minutes, it disappeared amongst the floating ice.
I saw close 1,00 ducks with maybe 20 red-breasted mergansers, 1 lesser scaup
and the rest pretty well divided equally between common goldeneyes and
common mergansers.  The only gulls were a few great black-backed gulls and
good numbers of herring and ring-billed gulls.

John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751

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