Hi, all...Leroy Troyer (Fredericksburg) and I started in Euclid at 9:30 a.m.,
then on to Mentor, and finally back home via E 72nd and 55th street marinas.
The highlights:
Sims Park, Euclid
-- Common Goldeneye (nearly 150)
-- All three scoters (finally sure on Surf...several "stood up" and
opened wings, no white at all; faces with very prominent, large, whitish patches)
-- Thousands of Red-breasted Merganser
-- Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead (8-10), and a few Common Mergs (flight)
Mentor Lagoons
-- No King Eider :(
-- Great Black-backed Gull (not where i'd have predicted we'd see one)
Mentor Headlands
-- No Purple Sandpiper (we checked the spit out to the lighthouse for
20-30 minutes around lunch time)
-- No Snow Buntings (did that bus leave a few weeks ago? no word lately)
-- More GBBG and a few DC Cormorant
-- Common Loon (one)
E 72nd Street Marina (3 pm)
-- hundreds of Bonaparte's Gull, smaller numbers of RB and Herring Gull
E 55th Street Marina (3:30 pm)
-- the possible LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL noted by Ed Schlabach (thanks a
million, Ed...I'm pretty sure on this one) finally moved into better position,
so I nabbed a few pictures. It was sitting on the break-wall across from the
public restrooms, about 20 feet left of the miniature lighthouse--very
obvious dark-slate shoulder visible, white mantle/neck, and much smaller than the
surrounding Herring Gulls...what the heck ELSE could that have been? would love
to call this a lifer....anyone want to see zoom/crop pictures and ponder with
me?
Let me know off list if you'd like to see the fuzzy pics of the bugger
sleeping, torturing us...
Scott H.
Canton
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