Bird movement was a bit slow today probably due to the high winds and occasional snow showers. Of note was a single American coot that was sitting on the lake. I rarely get coots out here along the open lake and a winter record is extremely rare. It appears that this bird may have moved on the same winds that brought all of the pintail earlier this week. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry December 31, 2008, 745-1015 Weather- cloudy with snow Winds- N 30-40+, Temp- 26-24 F Barometer- 29.92-30.10, Humidity-88-67, Dew point- 23-22 Waves- 10-12 feet, Flight direction- west Canvasback 7 Bufflehead 7 Common goldeneye 2 Common merganser 81 Red-breasted merganser 207 Common loon 1 American coot 1 Ring-billed gull 233 Herring gull 212 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 adult Great black-backed gull 19 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]