I birded the Cleveland and Lorain areas today and found a few decent birds.  At Lorain, the female long-tailed duck was still present at the Hot waters (Muni pier) area.  There was a nice variety of waterfowl in the harbor and up the river.  I saw mallard, black duck, gadwall American wigeon, redhead, canvasback, greater and lesser scaup, goldeneye, bufflehead, hooded, common, and red-breasted mergansers, horned and pied-billed grebe.  There were a few gulls here and there in the harbor and on the river.  Most were ring-billed gulls, but on the ice east of the sewage treatment plant there were quite a few  herring that also had 3 lesser black-backed, 1 glaucous, and 2 adult great black-backed x herring hybrids.


The only bird of note at Cleveland was a surf scoter along the breakwall that runs west from the sewage treatment plant.  It was with 30+ redheads.  I saw a lot of great black-backed gulls on the breakwall, but no white-winged gulls.  I did have a single Bonaparte's gull fly by.


I also had the Iceland gull at Fairport Harbor as well as a darker backed herring type gull.  My guess was it was some type of hybrid.


John Pogacnik

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