Summary of a multi-stop Lorain County day -

  Wellington Reservoir:  About 10% open water, but that should increase these next few days.  Many Canada geese, ring-necked ducks, mallards, and coots.  Small numbers of redheads, ruddy ducks, hooded mergansers, and pied-billed grebes.

  Findley SP:  Crows and black-capped chickadees.

  Caley Reservation:  3 long-eared owls, lots of small woodland birds.

  Oberlin Reservoir:  Also about 10% open.  Moderate numbers of Canada geese and ring-billed gulls, a few herring gulls and mallards.

  Lorain County Airport (scoping from the southwest corner):  2 red-tailed hawks, 2 northern harriers, three American kestrels, and a rough-legged hawk.

  Carlisle Reservation:  At the feeders, cardinals, goldfinches, black-capped chickadees, white-breasted nuthatch, titmice, juncos, and way too many house sparrows.

  Lorain Harbor (the no-longer-hot water zone):  Canada geese, ring-billed and great-black-backed gulls, 4 lesser scaup, and a Cooper's hawk on the power plant.

  Avon Lake Power:  Ring-billed gulls, mallards, and coots.

  Craig Caldwell
  Westlake

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