Hi Everyone,
Beth and I joined four other KBCers for a weekend on Kelleys Island.
Although our species count wasn¹t as high as some other folks had gotten in
recent weeks, we had a terrific time, we saw some great birds, and we even
got in a little bit of botanizing to accompany the birding‹and of course, we
thoroughly enjoyed the company.
On Friday, bound for KI, in addition to the predictable Red-tailed Hawks
along I-90, we had a Red-shouldered Hawk in Lorain County, which is quite
unusual for us.
We stopped at the Medusa Marsh area on the way. Not that much going on, but
we had:
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Gadwall (80+)
Mallard
American Coot in large numbers
Dunlin (one fly-by flock of about 20)
Ring-Billed Gull
Red-winged Blackbird (one flock of over 100‹we had also seen a couple of
large flocks, presumably also red-wings, from the highway)
House Sparrow
On Kelleys Island, birding most of the day Saturday and Sunday morning, we
had:
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Lesser Scaup (1 female)
Surf Scoter (three)
Long-tailed Duck (1 female)
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye (1 female)
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull (1)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper (3)
Carolina Wren (quite a few)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (the trees were dripping the kinglets, as well as
tree sparrows and juncos)
Eastern Bluebird (a flock of 25+)
American Robin (100s)
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Tree Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow (1)
Fox Sparrow (1)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Rusty Blackbird (1)
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
In addition, others in our group had:
Northern Harrier
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Common Merganser (1 female)
And other birders reported Greater Yellowlegs
Most of the flowers were gone, of course, but we saw a few interesting
things, and collected some Gray Sunflower seeds‹we¹ll see how that works
outŠ
Best wishes,
Steve Cagan
Cleveland Hts
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