It was interesting today. The mix of birds was a bit unseal. Four loons passed by, including one red-throated. I hadn't had a loon in some time prior to this. I also had a cormorant. There were a lot of gulls passing today, but ring-billed gulls far outnumbered herring. There were two white-winged scoters that passed by alone and a black scoter in a flock of mergansers. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 29, 2012, 730-1000 Weather- partly cloudy, Winds- SW 10-15 Temp- 31-33 F, Barometer- 30.07-30.04 Humidity-71-70, Dew point- 22-24 Waves-3-5 feet, Flight direction- west WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 BLACK SCOTER 1 Common goldeneye 33 Common merganser 28 Red-breasted merganser 248 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 3 Double-crested cormorant 1 Bonaparte's gull 16 Ring-billed gull 786 Herring gull 177 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]