Gull numbers were similar to yesterday while duck numbers were way down. The movement was interesting today, common mergansers and gulls were heading west while the other waterfowl were east. This was the third straight day of strong winds. It seems like most of the birds have settled down somewhere. Birds of note were a group of three long-tailed ducks and a glaucous gull. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County January 3, 2010, 730-1000 Weather- cloudy with occasional flurries Winds- W 25-30, Temp- 19-21 F Barometer- 30.18-30.17, Humidity-84-82, Dew point- 15-16 Waves- 7-9 feet, Flight direction- west Mallard 2 Canvasback 38 Greater scaup 11 Lesser scaup 53 LONG-TAILED DUCK 3 Bufflehead 8 Common goldeneye 2 Common merganser 53 Red-breasted merganser 274 Bonaparte's gull 1 Ring-billed gull 330 Herring gull 256 GLAUCOUS GULL 1 (1st cycle) Great black-backed gull 24 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]