Today was definitely the best of the year for gulls with thousands passing by to the west. Included were single glaucous and Iceland gulls as well as 128 great black-backed gulls. Gulls in smaller numbers continued to move throughout the day. depending on where they end up, there should finally be some good gull numbers to look through. Also of interest was an adult RED-THROATED LOON that was on the lake off my house for nearly a half hour. It eventually floated out of site to the east. Location- Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- January 9, 2007, Time- 7:45-10:15 Weather- Cloudy to mostly cloudy, Winds- SW 5-10 to NW 10-15 Temperature- 34-37 F, Barometer- 29.78-29.84 Humidity- 80-77, Dew point- 29-30 Waves- 2-3 increasing to 3-4, Flight direction- west Canada goose 1 Lesser scaup 1 Red-breasted merganser 233 RED_THROATED LOON 1 BALD EAGLE 1 adult Ring-billed gull 9.860 Herring gull 1486 ICELAND GULL 1 1st year GLAUCOUS GULL 1 adult Great Black-backed gull 128 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]