Things started out good with a lot of herring gulls heading overhead to the west. I was able to pick out a few decent gulls, Iceland, glaucous, and lesser black-backed. Around 8:30 the gulls switched over to mainly ring-billed. Gull numbers increased, but a lot fewer herring and no more white-winged gulls. Very few waterfowl, but off and on snow showers made watching the lake next to impossible. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 24, 2013, 0730-1030 Weather- cloudy with snow, Wind- NW 15-25 Temperature 24-21 F, Barometer- 30.30-30.35 Humidity- 75-82, dew point- 17-19 Waves- 4-6, Flight direction- west Common goldeneye 15 Red-breasted merganser 27 Common loon 1 Ring-billed gull 2645 ICELAND GULL 1 1st LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 ad GLAUCOUS GULL 3 (2- 1st and 1 ad) Herring gull 930 Great black-backed gull 39 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]