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Joyce Stevens, Dave Kuseyeski, husband Tim & I set out this morning hoping to confirm the presence of a Brown Pelican at Berlin Lake.  We visited every spot where the lake can be viewed from the road, some of them more than once but with no luck.  At one point I was so intent on seeing a pelican that I initially mistook a fly-by Great Blue Heron for the pelican but it only made my heart beat fast for an instant.  Later Tim tried to make another distant heron into a pelican but it was even less convincing.

After a good meal at Ben's, by the causeway, on the therory that all the boating & fishing activity at Berlin  made the pelican move on to quieter waters we searched Deer Creek & Walborn Reservoirs.  Not that pelicans seem to be particularly leery of boats & people along the coast but we needed something to fuel our search. Futile.

Even though we couldn't find the pelican, we did see about 32 species of birds.  The best sighting were the 4 or 5 Red-headed Woodpeckers at the Berlin camp Ground, followed closely by the young eagles still on the nest (or nearby branches) at Walborn Reservoir and the young Osprey on the nest at Greenbower RD, Berlin.

A good birding day, even without the "bird of the century".
Laura Dornan
Louisville, Stark County

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