I quit "officially" counting at birds this morning, but I occasionally would scope the lake. The ducks continued moving until about 3:30 when they nearly stopped altogether. It seemed like I would watch a few minutes and a flock of scaup would pass by. Most of these flocks were 50-100 birds. I am guessing another 2,000 scup went by this afternoon. Most interesting was a flock of 7 brant that passed by around 2:15. They were heading west. I also saw more scoters. I counted 84 white-winged, 14 black, and 3 surf scoters. This morning when I saw the large flocks of scoters, all were dark winged, surf and mostly black. Initially there were no white-winged scoters. As the morning progressed, so did the number of white-winged scoters. Towards the end this morning and this afternoon white-winged scoters dominated. I was thinking that the storm coming this next week would possibly bring some scoter and brant numbers Monday-Tuesday when the winds from the hurricane combine with the low and bring extremely windy conditions and then Wednesday on we might have a chance at some hurricane birds. Weather permitting watch Lake Erie and large inland bodies of water for migrants the next several days. This may be a very interesting week bird-wise. It has been many decades since Ohio has experienced a wreck of alcids John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]