I was at home this morning and had some time to watch the lake. The lake had been iced over since early February. There have been varying amounts of open water, but it has been mostly frozen. Yesterday the winds blew the ice out and this morning the only ice was a small amount of broken ice along shore. The winds today blew the ice back in and this evening the lake was again mostly ice-covered. There was a nice movement of waterfowl early, but things slowed down early. Gull numbers were very low. Birds of note was an adult male harlequin duck. I was able to get a photo. The bird was a quarter mile out and it kept disappearing in the high waves. I was amazed to get a decent photo of it. The photo can be seen at the link below. Also of note today were 4 surf scoters, 4 white-winged scoters, and a peregrine falcon. http://www.rarebird.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7170 <http://www.rarebird.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7170&PID=21768唈> &PID=21768唈 Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County February 20, 2013, 0715-1000 Weather- partly cloudy, Wind- W 25-35 Temperature 22 F, Barometer- 30.03-30.05 Humidity- 76, dew point- 15-16 Waves- 5-7 feet, Direction- west Greater scaup 6 Lesser scaup 1 HARLEQUIN DUCK 1 male SURF SCOTER 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 4 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 114 Common merganser 261 Red-breasted merganser 41 PEREGRINE FALCON 1 Ring-billed gull 6 Herring gull 38 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]