There was a great movement of birds today.  The gulls were particularly of
interest.  The time I watched There were 2761 ring-billed gulls and 1938
herring gulls.  Gulls continued to move the entire day.  They actually
picked up around noon.  I started watching then and even went out a while to
photograph them as they passed overhead.  It combines gull watching and hawk
watching and can be fun trying to pick out the different species.  Anyways,
from noon until about 3:30 I estimated about 9,000 herring gulls and about
1,000 ring-billed, a lot different composition than earlier in the day.
Also added after noon were 2 Iceland gulls, 1 Thayer's gull, 2lesser
black-backed gulls, 5 glaucous gulls, and 300 great black-backed gulls.



I did have a flock of 25 common redpolls come in the yard, but the hoary was
not with them.



Lakeshore Waterbird Survey

Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County

January 1, 2013, 0730-1030

Weather- cloudy, Wind- NW 10-15

Temperature 30-28 F, Barometer- 30.02-30.08

Humidity-  75-73, dew point- 23-22

Waves- 4-6 feet, Direction- west



Tundra swan   63

Lesser scaup   9

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER   4

BLACK SCOTER   2

Bufflehead   1

Common goldeneye   47

Common merganser   623

Red-breasted merganser   301

Double-crested cormorant   6

Bonaparte's Gull   240

Ring-billed gull  2,761

Herring gull   1,938

ICELAND GULL   1 (1st)

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL   2 (2 ad)

Great black-backed gull   68

BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE   1 immature



John Pogacnik

4765 Lockwood Road

Perry, OH 44081




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