I was in the Huron area this weekend so I decided to get out to the end of
the pier and see what was flying by.  I got there around 7:00 and stayed
until around 9:30.  As mentioned earlier today there was some excitement
with a Pacific loon and 2 purple sandpipers.  I had around 5,300
red-breasted mergansers which was a disappointment.  Twenty years ago at
this time of the year, that would have been a small flock..  There were some
Bonaparte's gulls moving, but they didn't start until around 8:30.  They
were all heading west and were just north of the pier.  Here is a list of
what I saw:

American black duck   2
Mallard   6
Red-breasted merganser   5,300
PACIFIC LOON    1 (possibly 2, second was a fly-by)
Common loon   375
Horned grebe   16
Double-crested cormorant   450+
PURPLE SANDPIPER   2
Bonaparte's gull   385
Ring-billed gull   447
Herring gull   38
Lesser black-backed gull   1

I headed to the Cedar Point Chausee and there was a lot of mud showing and a
few shorebirds, and a peregrine falcon.  Also there were 450+ tundra swans
sitting on the bay. There was a single CACKLING GOOSE with all the Canada
Geese just south of the McDonalds along the Cedar Point Causeway.  Here is a
list of shorebirds that were off the Chausee (many more were too distant to
ID)

Black-bellied plover   1
Lesser yellowlegs   1
HUDSONIAN GODWIT   2
Dunlin 210


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

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