There were about the same number of waterfowl, but a lot fewer gulls today. There was a good movement of pintail, scaup and cormorants. What was interesting was that about half the pintail I saw were with the cormorant flocks. They were also at the head of the flock. Of note with waterfowl were 4 surf and 1 black scoter. They were with scaup flocks. Of note with gulls was an adult Thayer's gull. The gull flew around and landed briefly on the water. It was with a half dozen herring gulls. This was one of my earliest dates for this species. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County October 18, 2015, 0715-1015 Weather- cloudy with a few flurries, Winds- NW 15-25 to 20-30 Temperature- 44, Barometer- 30.35-30.40 Humidity- 52-50, Dew point- 29-31 Waves- 5-7 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 2 Gadwall 4 American black duck 2 Mallard 12 Northern pintail 85 Redhead 16 Lesser scaup 106 SURF SCOTER 4 BLACK SCOTER 1 Ruddy duck 8 Common loon 2 Double-crested cormorant 891 American golden plover 2 Dunlin 16 Ring-billed gull 219 Herring gull 27 THAYER'S GULL 1 adult 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]