Julie West, Gary Neuman, Ben Fambrough and I were also down on the
Cleveland lakefront yesterday. I'll add to Glen Crippen's report that
there was a first year Iceland Gull that was in very close to shore at
East 72nd and an odd gull that Jerry Talkington thought was most likely
a hybrid Herring Gull and Great Black-Backed Gull. Field marks on that
bird were a mantle that was too dark for a Herring and too light for a
Black-Back, size about right for those species and a head that was
fairly white but with some "dirty" feathers on the back of head and nape.

A bit further west, in the basin where East 55th comes into the Shoreway
access road (just west of the Inner City Yacht Club), there were a few
ducks and other water birds, including Mallards, 1 Canvasback, 2
Redheads, 1 Northern Shoveler, 2 (Lesser) Scaup, 3 Pied Billed Grebe,
and about a dozen American Coot.

We didn't see too much at Burke Lakefront (we were there about 2 PM).
The only birds we could identify positively were an American Kestrel (at
the east end of the runways) and a Red-tailed Hawk (on the Shoreway
adjacent to the airport). There were two large raptors very far out east
of the runways that seemed likely to be Rough-Legged Hawks (light
morph), but they were too far for any positive ID.

Laura Gooch
Cleveland Heights

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