Things were a lot slower today. A lot fewer mergs and the only different duck was a single mallard. Gull numbers were down a bit, but today there were 169 Bonaparte's gulls. An immature Franklin's gull was mixed in with a small group of Bonaparte's. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County November 17, 2013, 0700-1000 Weather- cloudy- partly cloudy, Wind- S 15-25 Temperature 56-58 F, Barometer- 29.83-29.78 Humidity- 89-87, dew point- 53-55 Waves- 4-6, Flight direction- east Mallard 1 Red-breasted merganser 9,173 Common loon 12 Horned grebe 142 Double-crested cormorant 1 FRANKLIN'S GULL 1 imm Bonaparte's gull 169 Ring-billed gull 440 Herring gull 39 Great black-backed gull 1 Snow bunting 15 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]