There was a better movement of waterfowl today. I topped 1,000 mergansers for the first time in a while. Variety still was not that great, but an improvement. There was a decent gull movement with several great black-backs and an Iceland gull. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry, Lake County January 1, 2015, 0730-1000 Weather- partly cloudy, Wind- SW 20-25 Temperature 21-23 F, Barometer- 30.08-30.06 Humidity- 67-66, dew point- 11-15 Waves- 3-5, Flight direction- west Mallard 7 Redhead 6 Greater scaup 4 Lesser scaup 8 Common goldeneye 2 Common merganser 82 Red-breasted merganser 1455 Horned Grebe 1 Bonaparte's gull 47 Ring-billed gull 790 Herring gull 344 ICELAND GULL 1 ad Great black-backed gull 2813 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]