Things picked up slightly with gulls, but ducks numbers remained on the low side. The best bird was a young male harlequin duck that passed by close to the shore flying alone. A young male passed by close to shore on the 28th of December, I am guessing it may be the same bird as today. Also of note were two lesser black-backed gulls. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 4, 2009, 745-1015 Weather- cloudy Winds- SE 5-10, Temp- 28-33 F Barometer- 30.01-30.00, Humidity-72-61, Dew point- 20-22 Waves- 1-3 feet, Flight direction- west Canvasback 26 Lesser scaup 24 HARLEQUIN DUCK 1 Common goldeneye 1 Common merganser 66 Red-breasted merganser 49 Great blue heron 1 Bonaparte's gull 4 Ring-billed gull 386 Herring gull 247 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 2 Great black-backed gull 26 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]