I watched from the tower at the Clark Road side of the Lake Erie Bluffs. This 50' tower provides 360 degrees of viewing. There were again a lot of geese moving today, however they were all Canada geese with 809 birds counted. Some were heading north and others were heading east along the she shoreline. I also saw 26 swans. Blackbird numbers were a little lower and most were moving well inland away from the immediate lakeshore. There were a lot of crows with over 400 birds counted. Also of note was an adult Iceland gull, an eastern phoebe, and 5 American pipits. Lake Erie Bluffs- Clark Road, Lake, Ohio, US Feb 23, 2017 7:10 AM - 9:30 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Stationary on tower. Winds were gusty SW and turned west around 9:30. 26 species (+2 other taxa) Canada Goose 809 Tundra Swan 26 American Black Duck 3 Mallard 12 Greater/Lesser Scaup 8 Hooded Merganser 3 Red-breasted Merganser 748 Bald Eagle 3 Killdeer 1 Ring-billed Gull 480 Herring Gull 225 Iceland Gull 1 adult Great Black-backed Gull 8 Mourning Dove 7 Merlin 1 American Crow 420 American Robin 115 European Starling 92 American Pipit 5 Cedar Waxwing 4 American Tree Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 11 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 620 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 110 Brown-headed Cowbird 35 blackbird sp. 1400 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]