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> From: Renee <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:57 PM
> Subject: Cackling Geese and More at Summit Lake
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Summit County
> 5 minute stop at Chestnut Memorial Gardens (Cemetery on Chestnut
> Blvd in Cuyahoga Falls):
> The Black Swans are always there (wings are clipped). This is a great
> place though has it's share of "mixed- up" ducks (and geese). Though
> migrants do stop over.
> There was one Greater White-fronted Goose today.
> 10 minute visit to Cascade Metropark:
> Gray Catbird 1
> Eastern bluebird 1F
> White Throated Sparrow 1
> Robins 15
> Cardinals 2M 2F
>
> Summit Lake: Days like this make me think it's time to invest in a
> scope, better binoculars, more memory cards, camera lenses.... Or else
> I've just read to many post -Thanksgiving shopping ads.
> Small flock of Cackling Geese. Minimum of 11 birds. Wished them to
> stand next to a fireplug or something to prove their size on photos. Do
> have a couple of them backdropped against the large number of Canada
> Geese.
>
> Pied Billed Grebe 7
> Horned Grebe 2
> Red Tailed Hawk 1
> Sharp Shinned Hawk 1
> American Black Duck 3
> Northern Shovelers 150 or so M / F combined
> Common Merganser 2 F
> Hooded Mergansers hundreds of both M & F
> Ring Necked Duck 175 Mostly F
> Ruddy Duck 2 M 15 or more F
> Canvasback Duck 2 F
> Common Goldeneye 1 F
> Blue Winged Teal 1
> Great Blue Heron 1
> American Coots and Mallards surprisingly outnumbered by many of the
> aforementioned species.
>
> Didn't look closely at the gulls today. Mostly ring billed.
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