It was an interesting day. It started out very slow with only a few ring-billed gulls passing by overhead. Around 8:30 I started getting small to medium flocks of waterfowl, also a few loons, grebes, and cormorants.. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it was interesting. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County October 17, 2015, 0715-1015 Weather- partly cloudy, Winds- NW 20-30 Temperature- 44-45, Barometer- 30.23-30.29 Humidity- 58-57, Dew point- 36-38 Waves- 5-7 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 1 Gadwall 2 American black duck 8 Mallard 51 Blue-winged teal 1 Green-winged teal 13 Lesser scaup 95 Red-breasted merganser 2 Common loon 7 Horned grebe 2 Double-crested cormorant 241 Ring-billed gull 734 Herring gull 61 John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]