Today was pretty remarkable. It was very interesting how it started here.
By 9:00 I had only counted 4 ducks. About 9:15 the ducks started coming and
between 9:15 and 11:00 ducks were almost constant. When they first started
moving I had several huge flocks of scoters (190, 120, 90, 70). After that,
scoters were regular but there were no flocks larger than 20. I quit
counting at 12:00, but I am occasionally watching and there are still small
numbers of scoters now and then. All in all, about 1500 scoters for the
day. Over 5,500 scaup for the day.
The brant passed by around 10:00. It was noticeable because it was heading
west whereas almost all of the other birds were going east. The eider was
with a group of 3 white-winged scoters. Like Jerry Talkington's bird I
suspected it was a common eider due to color and shape. Distance was too
great to be certain. The harlequins were a single young male and a female
with a group of bufflehead. The long-tailed ducks were all in a single
flock. I believe this was my largest flock of long-tailed ducks for Ohio.
I also had a distant flock of white-winged scoters that contained three
birds that may have been eiders. The distance was just too great, but they
sure looked interesting.
Lakeshore Waterbird Survey
Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County
October 27, 2012, 0745-1200
Weather- cloudy with rain, Wind- NE 25-35
Temperature 46-45 F, Barometer- 30.07-30.10
Humidity- 93-92, dew point- 44-50
Waves- 8-10 feet, Direction- east
Canada goose 2
BRANT 1
Gadwall 26
American wigeon 2
American black duck 14
Mallard 86
Green-winged teal 2
Canvasback 6
Redhead 21
Ring-necked duck 24
Greater scaup 306
Lesser scaup 2,216
Scaup spp. 3,457
EIDER SPP. 1 female
HARLEQUIN DUCK 2 (1 female, 1 young male)
SURF SCOTER 352
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 173
BLACK SCOTER 611
SCOTER SPP. 420
LONG-TAILED DUCK 38
Bufflehead 134
Common goldeneye 18
Red-breasted merganser
Ruddy duck 44
Unidentified duck 1,000+ Many far out when it was raining hard.
Common loon 3
Double-crested cormorant 437
JAEGER SPP. 1
Bonaparte's gull 78
Ring-billed gull 136
Herring gull 384
Lesser black-backed gull 1 adult
Great black-backed gull 2
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
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