Fantastic movement of birds today.  It started out great with a group of 50
Bonaparte's gulls that contained one little gull.  It actually was fair
after that and then around 9:30 gulls and waterfowl started pouring by.
Lots of ring-billed gulls and red-breasted mergansers.  There were a lot
more goldeneye and common mergansers than I have seen in the last couple
weeks.  It seems as the weather gets colder their numbers tend to go up.  Of
note waterfowl-wise were white-winged and surf scoters and a female
long-tailed duck.  I also had 3 distant dark winged scoters.  Other than the
little gull, the only other gull of note was a glaucous.



With the predicted cold temperatures and winds predicted for the next
several days look for a lot of good movement on the lake.



The mergansers and gulls are still going by, but the number has decreased a
bit.  It is a good day to check the lake and some of the harbors.



Lakeshore Waterbird Survey

Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County

January 20, 2013, 0730-1130

Weather- cloudy/ scattered flurries, Wind- W 25-35 to 20-30

Temperature 30-23 F, Barometer- 29.89-30.12

Humidity-  64-65, dew point- 24-15

Waves- 8-10 feet, Direction- west



American black duck   3

Mallard   16

Northern shoveler   2

Scaup spp. 70

SURF SCOTER   3

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER   2

Scoter spp. 3

LONG-TAILED DUCK   1 female

Bufflehead   2

Common goldeneye   123

Common merganser   478

Red-breasted merganser   9,577

LITTLE GULL   1 adult

Bonaparte's gull   76

Ring-billed gull  11,200

Herring gull   1,740

GLAUCOUS GULL   1 st

Great black-backed gull   91





John Pogacnik

4765 Lockwood Road

Perry, OH 44081




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