I took off a couple hours this morning in anticipation of a good movement of birds, and I wasn't disappointed. The morning started off with brisk winds and light flurries. By 9:00 the snow increased enough that it made viewing occasionally difficult then would clear up. At around 9:30 the snow got heavier and visibility dropped to zero so I quit. There were numbers and diversity of waterfowl and gulls. Seven species of gulls were seen with Franklin's, lesser black-backed gulls, and kittiwake making things interesting. A parasitic jaeger was also found. It passed by about 8:50. It was heading west and passed directly below the tundra swan flock that was heading east. A surf scoter was the only unusual duck. Another bird of interest for me was pied-billed grebe. It is a species that I do not often see on the open lake here. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey November 10, 2008, 700-930 Weather- cloudy w/ snow Winds- W 15-20+, Temp- 34-35 F Barometer- 30.10-30.15, Humidity-88-89, Dew point- 31-32 Waves- 6-8 feet, Flight direction- west Tundra swan 37 Canvasback 58 Lesser scaup 1 SURF SCOTER 1 Bufflehead 53 Common goldeneye 6 Red-breasted merganser 388 Common loon 8 Pied-billed grebe 1 Horned grebe 3 PARASITIC JAEGER 1 immature FRANKLIN'S GULL 2 Bonaparte's gull 370 Ring-billed gull 565 Herring gull 79 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 2 adults Great black-backed gull 11 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE 1 immature Snow bunting 24 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]