Today was very different from yesterday. Yesterday there were lots of birds and great variety. Numbers were way down today with limited variety. Best birds were 2 long-tailed ducks that were sitting on the lake. Songbirds were slower today also with no redpolls or crossbills and only a single siskin. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 2, 2009, 730-1000 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- S 5-10, Temp- 31-33 F Barometer- 29.81, Humidity-77-72, Dew point- 25 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- west Tundra swan 12 LONG-TAILED DUCK 2 females Common goldeneye 5 Common merganser 83 Red-breasted merganser 25 Bonaparte's gull 86 Ring-billed gull 271 Herring gull 238 Great black-backed gull 22 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]