It was an interesting day. Not a lot of activity early and then around 8:30 things picked up with flocks of mergansers and Bonaparte's gulls. I ended up picking out a surf scoter and an adult Little gull. What big gulls passed by were very high. I al;so had an osprey. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County April 1, 2012, 700-1000 Weather- cloudy, Winds- S 5-10 to NW 10-15 Temp- 35-43 F, Barometer- 29.88-29.86 Humidity-87-86, Dew point- 32-38 Waves-1-3 to 2-4 feet, Flight direction- east Canada goose 16 SURF SCOTER 1 Bufflehead 7 Common goldeneye 1 Red-breasted merganser 961 Common loon 4 Horned grebe 4 Double-crested cormorant 362 Osprey 1 LITTLE GULL 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 461 Ring-billed gull 184 Herring gull 19 Great black-backed gull 2 Caspian tern 3 Belted kingfisher 2 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]