The winds were very strong today and things started slow. It ended up being a pretty good day with lots of loons and Caspian terns flying by. Birds of note were a single black scoter, red-throated loon, and lesser black-backed gull. The Eurasian collared dove was seen very early then was not seen the rest of the day. Another dove of interest today was mourning dove with white primaries and outer tail feathers and a white throat. It was spectacular in flight. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry April 16, 2011, 630-930 Weather- cloudy-partly cloudy Winds- SE 30-40, Temp- 50 F Barometer- 29.60-29.53, Humidity-82-77, Dew point- 45-47 Waves- 3-5 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 3 Mallard 2 BLACK SCOTER 1 Common merganser 1 Red-breasted merganser 391 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common Loon 113 Horned grebe 1 Double-crested cormorant 71 Bonaparte's gull 186 Ring-billed gull 374 Herring gull 83 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 adult Great black-backed gull 3 Caspian tern 116 Belted Kingfisher 3 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]