It was a very interesting day.  Not with rarities (although I did have a
single white-winged scoter), but with numbers.  From 7;00-8:30 I had 6
red-breasted mergansers.  A little after 8:30 a huge group of mergansers
passed by.  I estimated 29,300 birds in the flock and I missed the beginning
of the flock.  After that there were occasional large flocks of mergs
heading east.  I did not see too many flocks of less than 100 birds.  Around
9:45 I started getting birds heading east and west, so I quit counting.
This was the largest flock I have seen here in quite some time.



Lakeshore Waterbird Survey

Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County

December 1, 2012, 0700-1000

Weather- cloudy, Wind- S 5

Temperature 34-38 F, Barometer- 30.26

Humidity-  86-83, dew point- 31-36

Waves- 1-2 feet, Direction- east



WHITE-WINGED SCOTER   1

Red-breasted merganser   32,536

Common loon   1

Horned grebe  3

Double-crested cormorant   1

Bonaparte's gull   167

Ring-billed gull  244

Herring gull   33

Great black-backed gull   1



John Pogacnik

4765 Lockwood Road

Perry, OH 44081




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