I left for work early today to enjoy the nice weather and squeeze in some
downtown birding. Unfortunately, there was not much to report.

While on the bus I spotted:
2 Turkey Vultures (circling over the Cargill salt mine docks)

On Public Square I did not see the resident Peregrine Falcons, but I know
(from the webcam) that one of them is hunkered way down on three eggs, and
can't be seen in the nest box from ground level. I thought I might see some
action when the two TVs (I assume they were one and the same with the ones I
saw to the West) caught up and started riding thermals over the Square. I
figured the protective PF parents might see their large visitors off, but no
such luck.

In Old Erie Street Cemetery:
2 Northern Flickers (my first this year, I haven't made it out much) Now I
know where the peregrines get them!
5 more TVs, flying to the north.

Otherwise it was the usual urban birdies. I did not get to check the trees
around the National City Bank tower, which often serve as migrant traps
downtown.

Leslie Basalla
Cleveland's urban jungle

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