Things were a bit slower today with fewer ducks and gulls. There were more loons with an added bonus of a red-throated loon. There were also large numbers of cormorants today. Location- Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- April 1, 2007, Time- 7:15-10:00 Weather- Cloudy with occasional rain, Winds- SE 10-15 Temperature- 55-58 F, Barometer- 29.88-29.87 Humidity- 68-83, Dew point- 44-53 waves 3-4 Flight direction- east Canada Goose 12 Mallard 2 Bufflehead 3 Common goldeneye 6 Common merganser 21 Red-breasted merganser 832 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 13 Double-crested cormorant 848 Bonaparte's gull 212 Ring-billed gull 287 Herring gull 46 Great Black-backed gull 1 Caspian tern 1 Belted kingfisher 2 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]