The ice has mostly cleared out so I am able to watch the lake again.  There
was a decent movement of birds today with nearly constant small flocks of
red-breasted mergansers.  The best bird was a single cackling goose flying
with a group of 17 Canada geese.  The cackling goose was dwarfed by the
Canada's.

Lakeshore Waterbird Survey
Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry
March 19, 2011, 700-1000
Weather- cloudy- partly cloudy
Winds- N 5-10, Temp- 34-35 F
Barometer- 30.39-30.48,
Humidity-89-78, Dew point- 29
Waves- 2-3 feet, Flight direction- gulls west, ducks east
Ice 5%

CACKLING GOOSE   1
Canada goose   57
Wood duck   2
Lesser scaup   18
Bufflehead   1
Common goldeneye   1
Common merganser   11
Hooded merganser   9
Common merganser   4
Red-breasted merganser   818
Horned grebe   1
Bald eagle   1 ad
Bonaparte's gull   2
Ring-billed gull   812
Herring gull   234
Great black-backed gull   13

John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751

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