There was a good movement of gulls migrating eastward. Unfortunately it was a snaking movement that often went behind me where the birds were not visible so there was probably more white-winged gulls passing by. My count only includes the birds that passed in front of me. If you are looking for a number of total birds including those that passed behind, you can probably triple what I placed here. There were a few small areas of open water that attracted some waterfowl. It was interesting to watch the common goldeneye and mergs courting. At the feeders I had about 40 pine siskins, including one green morph and a single common redpoll. There were also a few white-winged crossbills high in the Douglas-fir tree west of the house. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County March 1, 2009, 700-1000 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- N 5-10 to NW 10-15, Temp- 19-23 F Barometer- 30.23-30.27, Humidity-79-74, Dew point- 14-16 Lake- 95% ice covered, Flight direction- east Canada goose 45 Common goldeneye 53 Common merganser 86 Red-breasted merganser 6 Ring-billed gull 1,888 Herring gull 1,344 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 (1 adult) ICELAND GULL 3 (2-1st cycle and 1 adult) GLAUCOUS GULL 1 (1st cycle) Great black-backed gull 73 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]