There was a lot of movement on the lake today. Lots of red-breasted mergansers and steady flow of Bonaparte's gulls all day. Best birds were an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL observed flying west around 9:15 and a breeding plumaged eared grebe that floated by to the east. I watched the lake off and on all day and also added a lesser black-backed gull. I'm guessing 200+ Caspain terns passed by today Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County April 18, 2009, 700-1030 Weather- clear Winds- SW 5 -10 to W 10-15, Temp- 50-65 F Barometer- 30.19-30.21, Humidity-56-53, Dew point- 35-33 Waves- 2-3 increasing to 3-4 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 35 Wood duck 4 Mallard 2 Bufflehead 7 Hooded merganser 3 Red-breasted merganser 1,868 Common loon 7 EARED GREBE 1 Double-crested cormorant 226 Great blue heron 2 Peregrine falcon 1 BLACK-HEADED GULL 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 777 Ring-billed gull 388 Herring gull 171 Great black-backed gull 2 Caspian tern 14 Forster's tern 2 Belted kingfisher 7 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]