It was a big difference over yesterday. Numbers were way down and variety was also down. Yesterday saw constant groups of red-breasted mergansers and Bonaparte's gull. Today only 31 Bonaparte's. The birds in numbers today were double-crested cormorants with 734 birds passing by. the only bird of note was a Merlin out over the lake. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County April 19, 2009, 630-900 Weather- cloudy Winds- N- 5 to ENE 10-15, Temp- 45-49 F Barometer- 29.99-30.01, Humidity-79-78, Dew point- 43-45 Waves- 1-2 increasing to 3-5 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 3 Bufflehead 3 Red-breasted merganser 873 Common loon 3 Double-crested cormorant 734 MERLIN 1 Bonaparte's gull 31 Ring-billed gull 96 Herring gull 17 Great black-backed gull 1 Caspian tern 17 Forster's tern 2 Belted kingfisher 1 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]