There was a good movement of mergansers this morning. Lots of big flocks, but with nothing different in them. There were a few small groups of gulls. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County December 24, 2011, 730-1000 Weather- cloudy with flurries to partly cloudy, Winds- S 5 Temp- 32-35 F, Barometer- 30.38-30.42 Humidity-82-78, Dew point- 27-29 Waves-1-2 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 8 Tundra swan 17 American black duck 3 Mallard 16 Bufflehead 38 Hooded merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 5,483 Common loon 1 Horned grebe 1 Bald eagle 1 ad Bonaparte's gull 2 Ring-billed gull 478 Herring gull 138 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 ad Great black-backed gull 7 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]