The strong northeast winds opened a narrow gap in the lake at my house in North Perry. The open water attracted quite a few ducks and gulls. Although diversity was low there were lots of birds. The best bird was a red-necked grebe that was seen briefly. It was doing a lot of diving and after watching it a few minutes, it disappeared amongst the floating ice. I saw close 1,00 ducks with maybe 20 red-breasted mergansers, 1 lesser scaup and the rest pretty well divided equally between common goldeneyes and common mergansers. The only gulls were a few great black-backed gulls and good numbers of herring and ring-billed gulls. 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]