There was a nice movement of waterfowl again, gulls were slow. Of note was a group of 9 scoters, 6 surf and 3 white-winged. I also had another group of 2 white-winged scoters. There was a group of 2 long-tailed ducks. They were flying behind a large merganser flock. Also of note was a flyby merlin. I saw one here a week ago, so it may be hanging around somewhere. This afternoon around 1:00, there was a moderate movement of gulls. They flew until around 3:30. I checked them out now and then and had a couple glaucous and a lesser black-backed. There were quite a few great black-backed also. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 6, 2013, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- S 5-10 Temperature 36-37 F, Barometer- 29.99-29.98 Humidity- 79-78, dew point- 30-31 Waves- 2-4 feet, Direction- east American black duck 1 Mallard 4 Lesser scaup 1 SURF SCOTER 6 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 5 LONG-TAILED DUCK 2 Common merganser 208 Red-breasted merganser 9,634 Common loon 1 Ring-billed gull 226 Herring gull 94 Great black-backed gull 9 MERLIN 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]