Three Fish Crows were hanging around in the boat launch at Gordon Park
in Cleveland this morning.  I observed one for a while and heard it
vocalize, then it was joined by two more birds.  Eventually all three
flew away as two American Crows approached them, so I had a good
opportunity to compare sizes and calls.

The calls are here (fairly bad audio):
https://soundcloud.com/ornitholoco/fish-crows-14-may-2013-at

The eBird checklist, with the fairly bad images I posted to flickr, is here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14108858

Surely these birds are nesting nearby...

Otherwise, the birding was fairly quiet in Cleveland Lakefront Nature
Preserve; it was very windy there.  I had more species of warbler in my
Cleveland Heights yard in ten minutes of birding than I did at CLNP.

Andy
--
Andy Jones, Ph.D.
Director of Science
William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology
and Head of Department of Ornithology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle
Cleveland, OH 44106
http://www.cmnh.org/Ornithology.aspx
Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornitholoco

______________________________________________________________________

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]