There was a fair amount of movement today with a lot of mergansers in the area. There must have been some fish in the area because a few flocks dropped down to feed and doing so attracted more birds. Searching these flocks paid off with a female long-tailed duck. The feeders had a flock of 6 common redpolls. There was no sign of the white-winged crossbill over the last three days Lakeshore Waterbird Survey February 3, 2008, 730-1030 Weather- cloudy Winds- SW 5-10 to W 5-10, Temp- 35-37 F Barometer- 30.20-30.26, Humidity-78-75, Dew point- 28-30 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 19 LONG-TAILED DUCK 1 Common merganser 418 Red-breasted merganser 301 Ring-billed gull 1461 Herring gull 274 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]