It was an interesting day. There was about 100 yards of ice, a quarter mile of open water, and then ice as far as the eye can see. The open water seemed laike a river and all the birds were following it, the gulls east and waterfowl west. The most interesting bird was a fly-by red-necked grebe. There was a white-winged scoter and two long-tailed ducks, both singles. The only gull of note was an Iceland gull. A single horned lark was seen flying east over the ice. Larks are early migrants. Was this a spring migrant? It's nice to think spring. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 11, 2005, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- S 10-15 Temperature 48 F, Barometer- 29.52-29.44 Humidity- 92, dew point- 46 Waves- 1-2, Flight direction-waterfowl west, gulls east Gadwall 5 Redhead 43 Greater scaup 3 Lesser scaup 74 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1 LONG-TAILED DUCK 2 Bufflehead 1 Common goldeneye 48 Common merganser 1474 Red-breasted merganser 5765 RED-NECKED GREBE 1 Ring-billed gull 81 ICELAND GULL 1 3rd Herring gull 632 Great black-backed gull 32 Horned lark 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]