It was pretty good this morning with large numbers of red-breasted mergansers and a nice variety of other ducks and gulls.There were several good birds with 8 SANDHILL CRANES being the best. Other birds of note were LITTLE GULL and LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. I had my first Caspian terns of the year. A single American coot was noteworthy as I rarely see them on the open lake here. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County Friday April 2, 700-930 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- S 5-10, Temp- 58-66 F Barometer- 29.98-30.02, Humidity-64-57, Dew point- 46-51 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 44 Mallard 2 Blue-winged teal 4 Greater scaup 6 Bufflehead 9 Common goldeneye 6 Hooded merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 6,656 Common loon 4 Horned grebe 1 Double-crested cormorant 156 Bald eagle- 1 adult SANDHILL CRANE 8 American coot 1 Killdeer 2 LITTLE GULL 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 657 Ring-billed gull 211 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 2nd cycle Herring gull 39 Great black-backed gull 3 Caspian tern 6 Belted kingfisher 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]