Things were very slow today with very few waterfowl moving and low numbers of gulls. The saving grace were two eastbound PURPLE SANDPIPERS, new for the yard list. Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- December 16, 2007, Time- 730-1000 Weather- cloudy / rain and snow, Wind- east 5-10 switching to southwest 5-10 Barometer- 29.29-29.25, Temperature- 35-34 F Humidity- 85, Dew point- 31-30 Waves- 1-3 feet, Flight direction- east Common merganser 3 Red-breasted merganser 16 PURPLE SANDPIPER 2 Ring-billed gull 214 Herring gull 79 Great black-backed gull 6 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]