Today was pretty amazing with numerous waterbirds and songbirds moving along the lake. The most amazing sighting were a group of 46 BRANT moving slowly to the west. Also of interest were the shorebirds. I had 77 WHIMBREL (3 flocks of 23,38, and 17 birds), and 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER amongst a group of dunlin. Fantastic variety for this late in the season. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey May 26, 2008, 630-900 Weather- cloudy (brief thunderstorm around 8:15) Winds- SW 10-15, Temp- 62-65 F Barometer- 29.89-29.84, Humidity-66-68, Dew point- 51-54 Waves- 3-5 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 6 BRANT 46 Red-breasted merganser 1 Common loon 2 Double-crested cormorant 24 Great blue heron 9 Great egret 1 Bald eagle 1 adult Spotted sandpiper 8 WHIMBREL 77 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 1 Dunlin 67 Peep spp. 8 Bonaparte's gull 2 Ring-billed gull 84 Herring gull 6 Caspian tern 1 Common tern 9 Forster's tern 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]