There was a decent movement of birds today. Not a lot, but some nice variety. There were several flocks of cormorants. For some reason the cormorants were flying east and everything else was going west. Birds of note were 3 black scoters, all adult males, and 2 American golden plovers. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County October 22, 2011, 730-930 Weather-cloudy Winds- SW 5-10, Temp- 47-48 F Barometer- 30.12-30.15, Humidity-82-80, Dew point- 42-43 Waves- 1-3 feet, Flight direction- cormorants east, all else west Canada goose 3 Lesser scaup 7 BLACK SCOTER 3 Red-breasted merganser 3 Common loon 1 Double-crested cormorant 373 Bald eagle 3 (2ad, 1imm) AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER 2 Ring-billed gull 312 Herring gull 164 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]