Fantastic movement of birds today. It started out great with a group of 50 Bonaparte's gulls that contained one little gull. It actually was fair after that and then around 9:30 gulls and waterfowl started pouring by. Lots of ring-billed gulls and red-breasted mergansers. There were a lot more goldeneye and common mergansers than I have seen in the last couple weeks. It seems as the weather gets colder their numbers tend to go up. Of note waterfowl-wise were white-winged and surf scoters and a female long-tailed duck. I also had 3 distant dark winged scoters. Other than the little gull, the only other gull of note was a glaucous. With the predicted cold temperatures and winds predicted for the next several days look for a lot of good movement on the lake. The mergansers and gulls are still going by, but the number has decreased a bit. It is a good day to check the lake and some of the harbors. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 20, 2013, 0730-1130 Weather- cloudy/ scattered flurries, Wind- W 25-35 to 20-30 Temperature 30-23 F, Barometer- 29.89-30.12 Humidity- 64-65, dew point- 24-15 Waves- 8-10 feet, Direction- west American black duck 3 Mallard 16 Northern shoveler 2 Scaup spp. 70 SURF SCOTER 3 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 Scoter spp. 3 LONG-TAILED DUCK 1 female Bufflehead 2 Common goldeneye 123 Common merganser 478 Red-breasted merganser 9,577 LITTLE GULL 1 adult Bonaparte's gull 76 Ring-billed gull 11,200 Herring gull 1,740 GLAUCOUS GULL 1 st Great black-backed gull 91 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]