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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]