There was a great movement of birds today with over 1,000 common loons counted and several uncommon species. The loons barely moved at all until about 9:30 and then they moved continuously until they slowed down after a snow squall went through about 10:15. Other birds of note was an immature male harlequin duck, 2 long-tailed ducks, 6 surf and 3 white-winged scoters, 3 red-throated loons, 2 red-necked grebes, 1 red phalarope and 1 immature dark parasitic jaeger. Birds slowed down quite a bit after 10:30. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County November 14, 2014, 0700-1100 Weather- cloudy/ snow, Wind- W 15-20 to NW 15-25 Temperature 33-32 F, Barometer- 30.19-30.24 Humidity- 72-71, dew point- 25-26 Waves- 4-6 to 6-8 Flight direction- west BRANT 4 Tundra swan 32 Gadwall 2 American black duck 9 Mallard 34 Redhead 16 Greater scaup 2 Lesser scaup 21 HARLEQUIN DUCK 1 imm. male SURF SCOTER 6 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 3 LONG-TAILED DUCK 2 Bufflehead 1 Common goldeneye 7 Hooded merganser 2 Red-breasted merganser 6095 Ruddy duck 1 RED-THROATED LOON 3 Common loon 1151 Pied-billed grebe 1 Horned grebe 31 RED-NECKED GREBE 2 Double-crested cormorant 4 RED PHALAROPE 1 Bonaparte's gull 440 Ring-billed gull 1285 Herring gull 168 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 Great black-backed gull 14 PARASITIC JAEGER 1 dark immature 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]