It was an interesting day.  Not a lot of activity early and then around 8:30
things picked up with flocks of mergansers and Bonaparte's gulls.   I ended
up picking out a surf scoter and an adult Little gull.  What big gulls
passed by were very high.  I al;so had an osprey.

Lakeshore Waterbird Survey
North Perry, Lake County
April 1, 2012, 700-1000
Weather- cloudy,
Winds- S  5-10 to NW 10-15
Temp- 35-43 F, Barometer- 29.88-29.86
Humidity-87-86, Dew point- 32-38
Waves-1-3 to 2-4 feet, Flight direction- east

Canada goose   16
SURF SCOTER   1
Bufflehead 7
Common goldeneye 1
Red-breasted merganser 961
Common loon 4
Horned grebe 4
Double-crested cormorant   362
Osprey   1
LITTLE GULL   1 adult
Bonaparte's gull   461
Ring-billed gull   184
Herring gull 19
Great black-backed gull  2
Caspian tern   3
Belted kingfisher   2

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

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.

You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]