Today was the best flight of the year for me. There was a great variety of ducks and gulls with a number of rarities. Two harlequin ducks passed by to the west. The first was a single and appeared to be a female. The second was amongst a group of 6 bufflehead and was a young male. Two jaegers passed by heading west. One was identified as a parasitic and the second was further out and was not identifiable. The immature kittiwake passed by heading west around 9:30 and less than ten minutes later another one passed by. Some birds were hanging around feeding and I am assuming there was only one bird, but there may have been two. The glaucous gull was a young bird (1st/2nd year) that passed overhead. The common tern was unusual also. I rarely get any terns after early September. I quit watching at 10:30 because we had guests over. I tried occasionally to see if anything was moving later in the day, but snow made visibility next to impossible. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County November 16, 2008, 700-1030 Weather- cloudy w/ light snow Winds- W 25-30+, Temp- 40-39 F Barometer- 29.84-29.87, Humidity-67-68, Dew point- 30-31 Waves- 10-12 feet, Flight direction- west American black duck 2 Redhead 3 Lesser scaup 12 HARLEQUIN DUCK 2 SURF SCOTER 6 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1 Bufflehead 22 Common goldeneye 3 Hooded merganser 6 Red-breasted merganser 704 Common loon 15 Horned grebe 3 Dunlin 16 PARASITIC JAEGER 1 JAEGER SPP. 1 Bonaparte's gull 86 Ring-billed gull 1,790 Herring gull 112 GLAUCOUS GULL 1 1st Great black-backed gull 7 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE 1 immature COMMON TERN 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]