There was a moderate flight of birds this morning. Best birds were a pair of white-winged scoters and a lesser black-backed gull. A belted kingfisher was unusual for this time of the year here. Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- December 28, 2007, Time- 730-1000 Weather- partly cloudy to cloudy, Wind- northeast 5 going to east 5-10 Barometer- 30.28-30.19, Temperature- 32 34 F Humidity- 77-76, Dew point- 28-25 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- most west, but some east Canada goose 31 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 Common merganser 11 Red-breasted merganser 436 Bonaparte's gull 127 Ring-billed gull 385 Herring gull 51 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 adult Great black-backed gull 4 Belted kingfisher 1 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]