This is for Saturday March 20.  This is the first day I have been able to do
a count in quite a while due to ice on the lake.  There was still a bit of
ice with ice extending about 200 yards from the shoreline, 300 yards or so
of open water and then more ice.  All the birds were in the area of open
water.  There were a lot of ducks around and low numbers of gulls.  There
was almost a constant movement of red-breasted mergansers all morning.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

I birded from Fairport to Lorain after this and saw a lot more birds here
than any where else.  There will be more about that in another email.

Lakeshore Waterbird Survey
North Perry, Lake County
Saturday March 20, 700-930
Weather- partly cloudy
Winds- NE 5-10, Temp- 34-35 F
Barometer- 30.01-30.06,
Humidity-80, Dew point- 32
Waves- 1 foot, Flight direction- east
Ice cover- 20%

Canada goose   7
Canvasback   1
Greater scaup   2
Lesser scaup   12
Bufflehead   8
Common goldeneye   27
Common merganser   3
Red-breasted merganser   3,044
Pied-billed grebe   1
Horned grebe   1
Ring-billed gull   41
Herring gull   23
Great black-backed gull   2

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

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