I spent a couple hours watching the lake at Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark in Lake County. It was overcast and windy with a northwest wind. There was a generally a slow movement of birds with most moving fairly early. By 8:45, things slowed down considerably. Of note was a single brant flying with a small group of mallards. An early morning red-throated loon was observed flying low over the water heading west. Single white-winged and surf scoters were both flying with groups of red-breasted mergansers. BRANT 1 Gadwall 6 Mallard 27 American black duck 2 Lesser scaup 2 SURF SCOTER 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1 Red-breasted merganser 884 Common loon 12 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Double-crested cormorant 4 Bonaparte's gull 72 Ring-billed gull 622 Herring gull 38 Also of interest were a group of 11 bald eagles that were heading east in a loose group. All were immatures. 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]