Elmwood Park in Rocky River was very slow today except for one notable exception.  At about 4:45 PM, this one tall tree came alive with birds.  As you are entering the park, just after the entrance road makes a dip before coming to the ball diamonds, there is a very tall tree on your right with a two foot diameter trunk with deeply furrowed bark.  Not sure what kind it is, but it had loads of catkins with red flowers, no leaves out yet.

  As I was observing the action, lots of kinglets (both kinds) and a few Nashville Warblers, I found an Orange-Crowned Warbler in the same area I observed one yesterday.  Could it be the same bird?  Some other birds distracted me, and as I tried to relocate the Orange-Crowned, I noticed the underside of a bird with a buff belly and flesh colored legs about 40 to 60 feet up.  It then leaned over to feed from a catkin, and I could see the black stripes on the buffy head, a WORM-EATING WARBLER!  My first ever in Cuyahoga County and first ever more than ten feet off the ground!  I thought they were always ground feeders.  Has anyone else ever observed this behavior?  I notified Marian and Jeff Kraus, and they observed the bird in the same tree about 6:00 PM.  Since I saw the Orange-Crowned two days in a row, I'm thinking there's a chance the Worm-eating might be there tomorrow.

  Complete Elmwood list:

  Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
  Nashville Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
WORM-EATING WARBLER
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
American Goldfinch

  And still no Yellow-rumped Warblers.

  John and Ann Edwards
  Rocky River
  Cuyahoga County




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