Headlands was difficult birding today with intermittent rain and persistent, strong winds off the lake keeping most birds low and tucked in. A few small flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers with the occasional Palm Warbler kept to the rocks on the Fairport Harbor side of the break wall. No ducks about.

Back down the Zimmerman Trail where the wind did not reach, I found much better numbers of migrants:
Hermit Thrushes - far out numbered others, 20+
Wood Thrush 1 (a nice surprise)
Gray-cheeked 1
Swainsons - 3
Both kinglets were well represented. I also found five Brown Creepers, four Winter Wrens and one House Wren. There were also a few Catbirds (five) and noisy flock of Grackles moving through  where the woods open up. White-throated Sparrows were ubiquitous. I saw a few Song and two Swamp, but no White-crowneds today.

Ben Fambrough
Cleveland Heights

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