There was a moderate movement of birds. Red-breasted merganser numbers were down from last week. There were no Bonaparte's gulls. The one good bird was a red-throated loon that was on the water floating west. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry December 5, 2009, 7:15-10:00 Weather- partly cloudy to cloudy, Winds- S 5-10, Temp- 28-33 F, Barometer- 30.16-30.17, Humidity-78-73, Dew point- 22-26 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- west Tundra swan 16 Bufflehead 3 Common goldeneye 6 Common merganser 4 Red-breasted merganser 739 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 1 Horned grebe 1 Bald eagle 1 adult Ring-billed gull 873 Herring gull 84 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]