Things were a bit slower than yesterday with fewer ducks and gulls. The best birds were a group of 3 white-winged scoters. Caspian tern was new for the spring. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County April 5, 2009, 700-930 Weather- clear Winds- N 5, Temp- 36-38 F Barometer- 29.98-29.96, Humidity-74-73, Dew point- 28-30 Waves- 2-3 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 6 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 3 Common goldeneye 9 Hooded merganser 3 Common merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 668 Common loon 2 Horned grebe 1 Double-crested cormorant 9 Bonaparte's gull 1 Ring-billed gull 188 Herring gull 51 Great black-backed gull 3 Caspian tern 2 Belted kingfisher 8 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]