It was pretty slow this morning. There was almost no wind and few birds were moving. There were 800+ red-breasted mergansers, but nearly all passed by in a ten minute period. Of note was a merlin that came in off the lake and perched briefly in a tree along the shore. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 21, 2014, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- SW <5 Temperature 33-35 F, Barometer- 30.32-30.33 Humidity- 78-75, dew point- 27-29 Waves- <1, Flight direction- east Mallard 1 Hooded merganser 3 Common merganser 5 Red-breasted merganser 838 Common loon 1 Horned grebe 3 Ring-billed gull 60 Herring gull 48 MERLIN 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]