There was a good movement of birds due to a cold front moving through the area. There was a nice variety of waterfowl as well as gulls. Best duck was a single SURF SCOTER. There were quite a few mergansers around. The mergansers were not really streaming by as they typically do. many would drop into the water for a while before getting up to fly again. I was under the impression they were having trouble flying in the strong winds. Other good birds were a RED-THROATED LOON and lesser black-backed gull. The loon landed briefly where I was able to get a decent look at it. It was an immature bird. My feeders had a lot of the common birds today. The WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL stopped by at around 2:30 for about 15 minutes. It fed at the feeders by the garage. The last couple times it has been here it has been at those feeders. I typically don't watch those feeders as much, so maybe it comes a little more frequently that I am seeing it. I have been seeing it about once a day for very brief appearances. I also had a single pine siskin. There were no redpolls at the feeders, but four were seen in the alders along the cliff. Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County Date- January 1, 2008, Time- 730-1000 Weather- cloudy with snow, Wind- SW 25-35 Barometer- 29.65-29., Temperature- 35 34 F Humidity- 79-80, Dew point- 26-25 Waves- 5-7 to 6-8 feet, Flight direction- west Gadwall 2 American black duck 2 Mallard 17 Canvasback 5 Greater scaup 17 Lesser scaup 8 SURF SCOTER 1 Common merganser 9 Red-breasted merganser 1,309 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Bonaparte's gull 69 Ring-billed gull 844 Herring gull 367 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 2nd year Great black-backed gull 23 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]