First off, the hoary redpoll was not seen today. I only saw two common redpolls the entire day. The ice was up against the shoreline so the birds were further out. Again there were a lot of red-breasted mergansers and gulls moving today. The gulls were heading east overhead at treetop height. The only gull of note was a first cycle Thayer's gull. The first big flocks of cormorants were seen today. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry March 27, 2011, 700-1000 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- N 10-15, Temp- 24-26 F Barometer- 30.13-30.18, Humidity-76-70, Dew point- 17-20 Waves- 2-3 feet, Flight direction- east Ice 60% Canada goose 4 Bufflehead 3 Common goldeneye 5 Hooded merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 927 Horned grebe 1 Double-crested cormorant 137 Bonaparte's gull 12 Ring-billed gull 960 Herring gull 388 THAYER'S GULL 1 1st cycle Great black-backed gull 18 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]