I birded the tower at lake Erie Bluffs in Lake County this morning for a couple hours. Despite southwest winds, it was much cooler today and a lot less birds. Yesterday i saw close to 9,000 blue jays, today about 1,000. There was a little more activity on the lake today with more Caspian terns and cormorants, but nothing else of note. I saw a lot fewer songbirds migrating with only yellow, palm and yellow-rumped warblers. The only birds of note were 11 black-bellied plovers that were heading west. Lake Erie Bluffs- Clark Road, Lake, Ohio, US Apr 28, 2017 7:00 AM - 9:45 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Partly cloudy with southwest winds. The temperatures were noticeably cooler compared with yesterday. Almost immediately it was evident there were a lot fewer birds moving today and that ended up being the case. 52 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 67 Wood Duck 9 Mallard 6 Lesser Scaup 1 Red-breasted Merganser 444 Ruddy Duck 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 5 Turkey Vulture 37 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Black-bellied Plover 11 Killdeer 1 Bonaparte's Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 331 Herring Gull 67 Caspian Tern 28 Mourning Dove 9 Chimney Swift 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 4 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Merlin 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Blue Jay 971 American Crow 13 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 68 Purple Martin 12 Tree Swallow 42 Bank Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 24 swallow sp. 200 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 33 Gray Catbird 3 European Starling 73 Yellow Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 11 White-throated Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 5 Eastern Towhee 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 165 Common Grackle 48 Brown-headed Cowbird 78 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 172 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]