Things started slow and improved greatly as the morning progressed. Still not a lot of mergansers our this way, but a nice variety of waterfowl including a couple surf scoters. Bonaparte's started moving around 9:00 and an immature black-legged kittiwake passed by with them heading west. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry November 20, 2009, 7:00-10:00 Weather- cloudy to partly cloudy, Winds- SW 5-10 increasing to 10-15 Temp- 44-48 F, Barometer- 30.15-30.17, Humidity-86-75, Dew point- 41-43 Waves- 3-5 feet, Flight direction- west American black duck 2 Mallard 2 Lesser scaup 3 SURF SCOTER 2 Common goldeneye 3 Red-breasted merganser 287 Common loon 16 Horned grebe 21 Double-crested cormorant 3 Bonaparte's gull 383 Ring-billed gull 341 Herring gull 31 Great black=backed gull 2 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE 1 immature 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]