No two days are the same and that is what makes these surveys fun. yesterday there were lots of loons and Caspian terns. Today, almost none. The big mover today was double-crested cormorants with over 500 counted. The most interesting bird was a small thin cormorant flying well ahead of a group of double-crested cormorants. Wingbeat, size, and shape were all different from the double-crested cormorants. I have seen small double-crested cormorants before and they always look like a miniature double-crested. Hopefully this bird shows up elsewhere, it was last seen heading west. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry April 17, 2011, 630-1000 Weather- cloudy-partly cloudy Winds- NW 20-30 to SW 20-30, Temp- 41-43 F Barometer- 29.74-29.71, Humidity-69-70, Dew point- 31-36 Waves- 8-10 to 5-7 feet, Flight direction- west Canada goose 1 Wood duck 3 Red-breasted merganser 183 Common Loon 3 Double-crested cormorant 513 Small cormorant 1 Bald eagle 1 ad Bonaparte's gull 28 Ring-billed gull 440 Herring gull 176 Great black-backed gull 2 Caspian tern 8 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]