It was a very interesting day. Not with rarities (although I did have a single white-winged scoter), but with numbers. From 7;00-8:30 I had 6 red-breasted mergansers. A little after 8:30 a huge group of mergansers passed by. I estimated 29,300 birds in the flock and I missed the beginning of the flock. After that there were occasional large flocks of mergs heading east. I did not see too many flocks of less than 100 birds. Around 9:45 I started getting birds heading east and west, so I quit counting. This was the largest flock I have seen here in quite some time. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 1, 2012, 0700-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- S 5 Temperature 34-38 F, Barometer- 30.26 Humidity- 86-83, dew point- 31-36 Waves- 1-2 feet, Direction- east WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1 Red-breasted merganser 32,536 Common loon 1 Horned grebe 3 Double-crested cormorant 1 Bonaparte's gull 167 Ring-billed gull 244 Herring gull 33 Great black-backed gull 1 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]