There was a decent movement of birds today with a nice variety of ducks and gulls. This was the first day in a while where there were any numbers of red-breasted mergansers moving. Included in the merganser flocks were all three species of scoters. There was one brief movement of Bonaparte's gulls and included with them was an adult FRANKLIN'S GULL. Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- December 15, 2007, Time- 730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- east 10-15 Barometer- 30.33-30.32, Temperature- 27-28 F Humidity- 70-71, Dew point- 16 Waves- 3-5 feet, Flight direction- west Lesser scaup 24 SURF SCOTER 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 11 BLACK SCOTER 9 Bufflehead 6 Common merganser 46 Red-breasted merganser 1,064 Common loon 1 Bald eagle 2- 1 adult, 1 sub-adult FRANKLIN'S GULL 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 177 Ring-billed gull 461 Herring gull 59 Great black-backed gull 16 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]