Without a doubt the highlight of the day, and season, was an ANCIENT MURRELET. I was scanning the waves with my binoculars and got on it immediately and recognized it as an alcid. I was able to get the scope on it and got some great looks at it. The blackish head and chest contrasted with the dark gray back and wings. There was an extension of white up the sides of the neck. The belly and underwings were white. It was a chunky large headed bird with short wings. It had a rapid wingbeat. Also of note was a pomarine jaeger that passed by heading west. Waterfowl numbers were great with over 21,000 red-breasted mergansers. There were a lot of very distant waterfowl on the lake. Of note was the mergansers and everything close in was heading west. The distant birds were higher in the sky and were heading east. They may have been scaup, canvasbacks, or redheads. Mergansers continued to fly the rest of the day and total for the day easily could have topped 50,000. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County November 23, 2013, 0700-1030 Weather- cloudy to partly cloudy, Wind- S 10-15 to 15-25 Temperature 36-37 F, Barometer- 30.26-30.24 Humidity- 76-75, dew point- 29-30 Waves- 4-6 to 5-7, Flight direction- west American black duck 3 Mallard 18 Canvasback 28 Greater scaup 9 Lesser scaup 84 Scaup spp. 340 SURF SCOTER 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 LONG-TAILED DUCK 4 Bufflehead 14 Hooded merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 21,423 Diving duck spp. 300+ Common loon 12 Double-crested cormorant 2 POMARINE JAEGER 1 Bonaparte's gull 53 Ring-billed gull 860 Herring gull 89 Great black-backed gull 3 ANCIENT MURRELET 1 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]