There was a great movement of gulls today with numerous great black-backed and several white winged gulls. Waterfowl were down a bit. There was no sign of the hoary redpoll today and no redpolls were seen at all. The redpolls had been feeding in the alders along the cliff. The high winds off the lake may have been too intense for them. The vesper sparrow was seen most of the day. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 30, 2012, 0730-1030 Weather- cloudy/ snow, Wind- W 15-20 Temperature 31-32 F, Barometer- 30.21-30.27 Humidity- 81-80, dew point- 25-27 Waves- 4-6 feet, Direction- west Canvasback 1 Lesser scaup 1 Common goldeneye 30 Common merganser 33 Red-breasted merganser 202 Ring-billed gull 911 Herring gull 1588 ICELAND GULL 2 (1 ad, 1 3rd) LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 2 ad GLAUCOUS GULL 3 (1 ad, 2 1st) Great black-backed gull 147 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]