The lake again was alive with birds. The big question for me was where were the Bonaparte's gulls today. Although good numbers were reported most other places, I had only 6. Best birds were a flock of 9 BRANT that were seen flying east. I also had 3 black scoters. There were a lot of ring-billed gulls today and quite a few herring gulls. Canvasback and scaup were heading east. Most everything else was heading west. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry November 28, 2009, 7:15-10:00 Weather- partly cloudy to cloudy, Winds- SW 5-10, Temp- 41-40 F, Barometer- 30.01-30.02, Humidity-77-73, Dew point- 38-40 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- Canvasbacks and scaup east, all else west BRANT 8 Canvasback 204 Greater scaup 12 Lesser scaup 134 Scaup spp. 130 BLACK SCOTER 3 Bufflehead 7 Common goldeneye 19 Hooded merganser 94 Red-breasted merganser 2,193 Common loon 1 Bald eagle 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 6 Ring-billed gull 2,760 Herring gull 286 Great black-backed gull 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]