This was the first day in a few weeks that I was able to watch the lake. Two weeks ago it was ice and last week fog. There is still about 100 feet of ice along the shoreline, but lots of open water beyond that. There were a few gulls passing by today but nothing out of the ordinary. There were very few ducks. I stopped briefly at East 72nd Street later in the morning. It didn't look like they were pumping much hot water and north winds had brought some ice in. As a result there were not a lot of birds and those that were around were mainly sitting on the ice. I saw a 1st/2nd cycle glaucous and Tom Bartrlett saw an adult glaucous. Not much else. At Eastlake there was a nice mix of ducks and gulls, but low numbers. Here too, the ice had blown in. There were canvasbacks, redheads, scaup, bufflehead and a Bonaparte's amongst the more common things. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 23, 2010, 730-930 Weather- cloudy to partly cloudy Winds- E 5-10, Temp- 32-33 F Barometer- 30.12-30.09, Humidity-75-74, Dew point- 25-26 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 2 Common goldeneye 1 Red-breasted merganser 21 Bald eagle 1 immature Ring-billed gull 196 Herring gull 212 Great black-backed gull 17 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]