I only had a couple hours to watch the lake this morning. Gull numbers were down quite a bit but merganser numbers were way up. A few good birds were found including surf scoter, long-tailed duck, and common loon. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 21, 2010, 730-930 Weather- cloudy Winds- W 20-30, Temp- 20-17 F Barometer- 30.15-30.18, Humidity-79-78, Dew point- 15-11 Waves- 7-9 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 1 Canvasback 36 Redhead 12 Greater scaup 2 Lesser scaup 27 SURF SCOTER 6 SCOTER SPP. 7 LONG-TAILED DUCK 1 male Bufflehead 1 Common goldeneye 14 Common merganser 344 Red-breasted merganser 8,696 COMMON LOON 1 Ring-billed gull 322 Herring gull 114 Great black-backed gull 8 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]