Today was by far the largest movement of gulls. From 8:45- 10:00 gulls passed by a a rate of 100-200 a minute. I ended up with close to 35,000 individuals and 8 species of gulls. Waterfowl were also decent with good numbers of mergansers and scaup. Black and white-winged scoters were of note. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County December 10, 2011, 730-1030 Weather- cloudy with flurries, Winds- SW 10-15 Temp- 30-31 F, Barometer- 30.43-30.48 Humidity-89-88, Dew point- 21-23 Waves- 2-4 feet, Flight direction- west American black duck 4 Mallard 1 Greater scaup 1 Lesser scaup 57 Scaup spp. 340 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 BLACK SCOTER 5 Common goldeneye 2 Common merganser 23 Red-breasted merganser 4,357 Horned grebe 3 Bonaparte's gull 72 Ring-billed gull 21,530 Herring gull 13,110 THAYER'S GULL 1 1st cycle KUMLIEN'S GULL 1 1st/2nd cycle LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 ad GLAUCOUS GULL 3 (2 1st/2nd cycle, 1 ad) Great black-backed gull 31 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]