Yesterday there was about a half mile of ice along the shoreline. Today the lake was covered in ice. There were a couple very narrow leads of open water, but that was it. Gulls were flying over the icepack heading west. Most were pretty distant. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 16, 2010, 730-930 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- NW 10-15 Temp- 16-17 F Barometer- 30.22-30.27 Humidity-74-73, Dew point- 10-11 Ice cover 95%, Flight direction- west Common merganser 6 Ring-billed gull 103 Herring gull 986 GLAUCOUS GULL 2 Great black-backed gull 27 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]