Today started slow and ended slow, but between 7:45 and 8:45 it was great. There was a great movement of waterfowl with 17 species being seen. The best birds were a pair of cackling geese and a pair of white-winged scoters. Also of note were 48 wood ducks with a single flock of 42 birds. There were a decent number of gulls, but nothing of note amongst them. There were about 100 crows migrating eastward, but that was it for passerine migrants due to the north winds. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 7, 2009, 700-1000 Weather- cloudy Winds- NE 5-10, Temp- 40-44 F Barometer- 30.05-30.02, Humidity-82-84, Dew point- 35-40 Waves- 2-4 feet, ice cover 30% Flight direction- west CACKLING GOOSE 2 Canada goose 58 Wood duck 48 Gadwall 2 American black duck 4 Mallard 21 Lesser scaup 76 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 Bufflehead 6 Common goldeneye 116 Hooded merganser 2 Common merganser 637 Red-breasted merganser 653 Ring-billed gull 1209 Herring gull 587 Great black-backed gull 53 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]