Today was a little better than yesterday with a lot more waterfowl. Gull numbers were the same as yesterday. Of note was a black scoter and a long-tailed duck. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 28, 2012, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- S 5-10 Temperature 27-30 F, Barometer- 30.13-30.14 Humidity- 80, dew point- 22-24 Waves- 2-3 feet, Direction- east Gadwall 4 Lesser scaup 1 BLACK SCOTER 1 LONG-TAILED DUCK 1 female Common goldeneye 27 Common merganser 4 Red-breasted merganser 7,389 Common loon 1 Double-crested cormorant 2 Ring-billed gull 188 Herring gull 34 Great black-backed gull 2 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]