It was a pretty good day with lots of variety and good numbers of waterfowl and gulls. Seventeen species of waterfowl were seen. The only species of note were surf and white-winged scoter. There was a decent flight of loons with 112 counted flying high. The one red-throated loon was flying low over the lake. Six species of gulls were counted with the unusual ones being Iceland and lesser black-backed. There were only a few Bonaparte’s. Most of the gulls flying overhead were ring-billed. In the afternoon there were still gulls flying west, but now herring gulls were the dominant species. A glaucous was seen this afternoon, but I wasn’t counting at the time. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 7, 2013, 0730-1100 Weather- cloudy, Wind- NW 10-15 Temperature 26 F, Barometer- 30.46-30.53 Humidity- 76-71, dew point- 20-18 Waves- 3-5, Flight direction- mergansers and gulls west, other waterfowl east Canada goose 2 Tundra swan 107 Gadwall 4 American wigeon 2 American black duck 8 Mallard 39 Northern pintail 1 Canvasback 63 Redhead 18 Greater scaup 22 Lesser scaup 143 Scaup spp. 290 SURF SCOTER 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 2 Bufflehead 6 Common goldeneye 77 Common merganser 34 Red-breasted merganser 4,356 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 112 Bonaparte’s gull 18 Ring-billed gull 2250 ICELAND GULL 1 3rd LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 ad Herring gull 278 Great black-backed gull 12 John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]