> From dawn till now, 11:30 am, a mass movement of waterbirds on Lake Erie. This is a partial list. The totals will be reported tonight. > > From Rocky River: (JB, Larry Richardson, Helen Taft) (flight direction west to east): > Red-throated Loon (1) amongst 400+ Common Loons. Red-necked Grebe (1) amongst 600 plus Horned Grebes. Long-tailed Duck (1), Snow Goose (2), Pomarine Jaeger (1), White-winged Scoter (68), Surf Scoter (45), Black Scoter (48), Red Knot (1), Dunlin (900), and large numbers of Red-breasted Mergansers, Green-winged Teal and Lesser Scaup with fewer numbers of Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Northern Pintail, black ducks. > > From Mentor: (Jerry Talkington, Ray Hannikman) > Harlequin Duck (2), Red Phalarope (1), Parasitic Jaeger (1), Long-tailed Duck (4), Brant (10), plus mass numbers of scoters (over 100 White-wingers and counting), and merge and scaup. > > Emil Bacik had TWO Red Phalaropes fly by Headlands lighthouse this am. > > Thousands of Bonapartes on the lake now. > > More totals soon. The strong NNE winds blasted open one of the flood gates. > > JB > > Jen Brumfield > Cleveland, OH > [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]