The lake finally opened up a bit and it actually was not snowing, so I was able to do a survey. There moderate numbers of ducks and gulls with the ducks being mostly mergansers. Nothing of note with the ducks or gulls, but a common loon was interesting. It was observed flying south overhead. It headed inland like it knew it wanted to get out of here fast. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 5, 2005, 0730-1000 Weather- cloudy, Wind- SE 5-10 Temperature 33-36 F, Barometer- 30.03-30.01 Humidity- 73-80, dew point- 26-32 Waves- 1, Flight direction- east Canada goose 12 Mallard 1 Canvasback 38 Redhead 17 Greater scaup 4 Lesser scaup 34 Common goldeneye 21 Common merganser 422 Red-breasted merganser 628 Common loon 1 Ring-billed gull 104 Herring gull 275 Great black-backed gull 18 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]