My son was home sick today so I got a little lake watching in. It was actually pretty decent with a few ducks and gulls and lots of shorebirds. I had nine individual flocks of dunlin totaling 688 birds. I also had an avocet, a couple Hudsonian godwits, and 3 yellowlegs. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry October 26, 2009, 730-10:00 Weather- clear Winds- SE 5, Temp- 42-47 F Barometer- 30.22-30.24, Humidity-79, Dew point- 41 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- west Lesser scaup 27 Red-breasted merganser 67 Common loon 1 AMERICAN AVOCET 1 Lesser yellowlegs 3 HUDSONIAN GODWIT 2 Bonaparte's gull 271 Ring-billed gull 334 Herring gull 35 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]