What a great awful day to be bird watching on the Lake Erie shore. Rain wind and cold made a great for ducks but I am still shaking. Started at Sunset Park in Willoughby. Highlights: 4 Brant Three Scoter species 5 Common Goldeneye 20 Bufflehead Lesser and Greater Scaup 16 Northern Pintail 12 Gadwall 10 American Widgeon Many birds too far out to id in the high wind and rain . Painesville Park: 9 Brant ( close) 2 Long-tailed Duck 60 Bufflehead 1 Harlequin Duck 2 Pomarine Jaeger Pintails ,Wigeons,Gadwalls,Scoters,Scaup Ray had a flyby Purple Sandpiper at Headlands. Sent from my iPhone. I L S ______________________________________________________________________ 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]