10 May
Black River Wharf:  pair of Cooper's hawks defending nest from low-flying turkey vultures, red-breasted nuthatch (pale, as others have described), least flycatcher, 5 spp warblers.
 
Elmwood Cemetery and Wetlands Preserve, N Ridge Rd: 11 spp warblers, including blue-wingeds, Tennessee, northern parula, ovenbirds, hooded.
 
Lakeview Park: red-headed woodpeckers, purple martins, homemade sausage gravy & biscuits at the Rose Cafe.
 
Lorain impoundment: blue-winged teals, northern shoveler, bufflehead, ruddy ducks, great egrets, lesser yellowlegs, least sandpipers, dunlins, 50+ Caspian terns, belted kingfisher, bank swallows, cliff swallow, marsh wren.  I am certainly no botanist, but I'd wager there are more species of birds than species of plants on the impoundment.  A single-lane driveway has been built up more or less around the outside, creating more shallow water and, at least for now, some mud---sort of a moat around the middle.  I guess it's early for a lot of shorebirds but the habits looks at least superficially improved. A fisherman drove a minivan out while I was there and it's not posted otherwise anywhere that I saw.
 
Peace,
Gregory Bennett
Akron OH

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