There was not a lot of birds today but there was some nice variety. Of note were 4 long-tailed ducks and a red-throated loon. Also of interest was a small dark loon that was with two common loons. It was left unidentified as it was a bit distant. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County October 26, 2014, 0730-1000 Weather- clear, Wind- NW 15-25 Temperature 53-55 F, Barometer- 29.86-29.91 Humidity- 69-68, dew point- 43-45 Waves- 2-4 Flight direction- west Gadwall 1 American black duck 5 Mallard 16 Northern pintail 8 Lesser scaup 6 LONG-TAILED DUCK 4 (1m, 3f) Bufflehead 4 Red-breasted merganser 106 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 6 (1 small) Horned grebe 17 Bonaparte's gull 280 Ring-billed gull 305 Herring gull 31 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]