It was pretty slow today with few birds moving. The dropping barometer and light rain had a lot to do with it. the lone saving grace for the day was a cackling goose sitting with 13 Canada geese out on the lake. It was there at first light and finally flew off around 8:00 to the east. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry December 13, 2009, 7:30-9:30 Weather- cloudy with rain, Winds- S 15-25, Temp- 37-38 F, Barometer- 29.97-29.93, Humidity-66-82, Dew point- 26-33 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- east CACKLING GOOSE 1 Canada goose 13 Mallard 4 Red-breasted merganser 171 Bonaparte's gull 12 Ring-billed gull 246 Herring gull 19 Great black-backed gull 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]