Things were a bit more active today with a nice movement of ring-billed gulls heading east. There were a few more waterfowl. A male long-tailed duck was amongst a group of red-breasted mergansers. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry December 26, 2009, 7:45-9:45 Weather- partly cloudy, Winds- S 5-10, Temp- 30-31 F, Barometer- 29.95-29.96, Humidity-85, Dew point- 32-31 Waves- 1-3 feet, Flight direction- east Lesser scaup 27 LONG-TAILED DUCK 1 male Common merganser 9 Red-breasted merganser 268 Bald eagle 1 immature Ring-billed gull 2,455 Herring gull 137 Great black-backed gull 11 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]