Today was surprisingly good considering it was a very light southerly wind. There were a lot more geese today and a lot of gulls. The gulls passed by mainly in three bunches. The largest was a group of over 700 that passed by in a period of 15 minutes. The gulls would pass by in groups and in between it was slow. There was a mixed group of gulls that fed off-shore most of the morning. This is where the immature long-tailed jaeger passed by at 7:45. It flew east through the flock of gulls that were heading west while feeding. The gulls did not seem to concerned. The parasitic jaeger passed by around 9:10, it was heading west. I saw another about a half hour later. It seemed to be identical to this bird so I counted it as one. It was interesting to compare the wingbeats of the long-tailed jaeger as opposed to the parasitic. The long-tailed had a wingbeat that was pretty similar to that of a nighthawk. The parasitic was more fluid. Also when the parasitic passed by, the gulls got excited and a couple took chase. The long-tailed jaeger went through unmolested. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County September 16, 2012, 700-1000 Weather- clear Winds- S 5, Temp- 51-61 F Barometer- 30.20, Humidity-86-78, Dew point- 47-54 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 72 Double-crested cormorant 5 Bald eagle 1 imm Bonaparte's gull 18 Ring-billed gull 1260 Herring gull 145 Lesser black-backed gull 1 1st cycle Caspian tern 1 Common tern 3 Forster's tern 2 PARASITIC JAEGER 1 LONG-TAILED JAEGER 1 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]