There was a great movement of birds today with over 13,000 common and red-breasted mergansers, all heading west. Also of note with waterfowl were 5 black scoters. There was also an excellent movement of gulls with 1 Thayer's, 3 glaucous and a lesser black-backed gull. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 12, 2005, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- W 15-20 Temperature 34-35 F, Barometer- 29.84-29.95 Humidity- 85-83, dew point- 30-31 Waves- 2-3, Flight direction- west Canada goose 2 Mallard 2 Canvasback 9 Redhead 17 Greater scaup 17 Lesser scaup 42 BLACK SCOTER 5 Common goldeneye 35 Common merganser 3,143 Red-breasted merganser 10,120 Ring-billed gull 114 THAYER'S GULL 1 ad LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 ad Herring gull 970 GLAUCOUS GULL 3 (2 1st, 1 ad) Great black-backed gull 44 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]