Today was the first waterbird survey of the season. It was a decent flight for mid-October. Most of the birds were out quite a way from shore. There was a brief movement of Bonaparte's, but it ended pretty quick. The best birds were PARASITIC JAEGER and 34 COMMON MERGANSERS. My guess with the mergansers is they bred somewhere locally (Pennsylvania ??). there was one adult male and the others appeared to be immatures/females. The jaeger passed by around 7:30 It flew through to the west without slowing down. It was a young bird. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey October 18, 2008, 700-1000 Weather- cloudy Winds- NE 10-15, Temp- 42-43 F Barometer- 30.27-30.33, Humidity-74-73, Dew point- 35-36 Waves- 3-5 feet, Flight direction- west COMMON MERGANSER 34 Common loon 1 Double-crested cormorant 23 PARASITIC JAEGER 1 Bonaparte's gull 72 Ring-billed gull 248 Herring 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]