The Lake Erie Bluffs metropark in Lake County was excellent this morning. I watched the lake from around 7:00-10:00 and there was a good movement of waterfowl and gulls. Of note were 12 brant, 2 surf scoters, 3,000+ red - breasted mergansers, 82 hooded mergansers, 1 Glaucous gull, and a lesser black-backed gull. Both gulls headed inland to the landfill. Other birds noted were merlin, 4 fox sparrows, and 9 common redpolls. Also of note were several flocks of migrating chickadees along the lake totally about 70 birds. 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]