It was a very calm peaceful morning. Winds were southerly but barely enough to create a ripple on the surface. This made it easy to pick out birds on the water at a great distance. This made for a great morning for spotting horned grebes and common loons. They were moving east on the lake all morning. There was a single red-throated loon. It was actually one of the first birds of the morning. It was on the lake and heading east. The only other bird of note was a single snow bunting. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey North Perry, Lake County October 29, 2011, 730-1000 Weather-mostly sunny Winds- S 5, Temp- 34-36 F Barometer- 30.10-30.11, Humidity-88-86, Dew point- 31-33 Waves- <1 feet, Flight direction- loons, grebes, gulls east, waterfowl west Lesser scaup 4 Hooded merganser 1 Red-breasted merganser 287 RED-THROATED LOON 1 Common loon 27 Horned grebe 123 Double-crested cormorant 12 Bonaparte's gull 231 Ring-billed gull 111 Herring gull 22 Great black-backed gull 2 Snow bunting 1 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]