There were a lot of mergansers passing by today. It is my highest count here this season. Not a lot of gulls moving and no Bonaparte's gulls. The only birds of note were 3 surf scoters. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County December 24, 2015, 0720-1020 Weather- cloudy to partly cloudy, Winds- SW 20-30 Temperature- 52-53, Barometer- 29.76-29.99 Humidity- 67-65, Dew point- 46-49 Waves- 4-6 feet, Flight direction- west Mallard 6 SURF SCOTER 3 Common goldeneye 32 Common merganser 22 Red-breasted merganser 13,770 Common loon 8 Ring-billed gull 399 Herring gull 79 Great black-backed gull 8 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]