I was in the Huron area this weekend so I decided to get out to the end of the pier and see what was flying by. I got there around 7:00 and stayed until around 9:30. As mentioned earlier today there was some excitement with a Pacific loon and 2 purple sandpipers. I had around 5,300 red-breasted mergansers which was a disappointment. Twenty years ago at this time of the year, that would have been a small flock.. There were some Bonaparte's gulls moving, but they didn't start until around 8:30. They were all heading west and were just north of the pier. Here is a list of what I saw: American black duck 2 Mallard 6 Red-breasted merganser 5,300 PACIFIC LOON 1 (possibly 2, second was a fly-by) Common loon 375 Horned grebe 16 Double-crested cormorant 450+ PURPLE SANDPIPER 2 Bonaparte's gull 385 Ring-billed gull 447 Herring gull 38 Lesser black-backed gull 1 I headed to the Cedar Point Chausee and there was a lot of mud showing and a few shorebirds, and a peregrine falcon. Also there were 450+ tundra swans sitting on the bay. There was a single CACKLING GOOSE with all the Canada Geese just south of the McDonalds along the Cedar Point Causeway. Here is a list of shorebirds that were off the Chausee (many more were too distant to ID) Black-bellied plover 1 Lesser yellowlegs 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT 2 Dunlin 210 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]