Greetings birders -
Myself, Dane Adams, John Cameron, and Fred Riley birded the lakefront today from Headlands Beach State Park to Sim's Park in Euclid. Highlights included several White-winged Scoters (all three species of scoters, as well), Lesser Black-backed Gull, and fantastic numbers of Bonaparte's Gulls and Red-breasted Mergansers. A very blustery morning, with strong WSW winds, pushed gulls east, and for the most part, consensus from separate parties saw waterfowl pushing west. Gabe and Emil had a fantastic morning's watch from atop a bluff west of Headlands, in Willoughby, at Sunset Park (see his previous report on the list). We attempted (with fingers crossed) to pick up on a Little Gull (and Black-headed), as the throngs of Bonaparte's were erupting from the west and really booking it past us. Many would fly over the breakwall and land in Fairport Harbor - a great spot to check now for these rare gull species.
Here's the run-down:
Headlands Beach SP (and Fairport Harbor visible immediately to the east)
Bonaparte's Gull - 4,000
Common Loon - 15 (flying relatively high overhead)
Horned Grebe - 3
Red-breasted Merganser - 2,000
American Black Duck - 2
Common Goldeneye - 8
Bufflehead - 6
Hooded Merganser - 2
scoter species - 1
Eastlake Power Plant:
Red-breasted Merganser - 3,500
White-winged Scoter - 3 (flybys on the horizon)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult
Bonaparte's Gull - 2,000
Sim's Park
Black Scoter - 10
Surf Scoter - 1
White-winged Scoter - 1
Common Goldeneye - 22
Bufflehead - 8
Lesser Scaup - 3
Greater Scaup - 1
Horned Grebe - 7
Bald Eagle - 1 immature (fantastic display, dive-bombing the scoter group!)
Pine Siskin - 1 flyover
Best of birding -
Jen
Jen Brumfield
Sharon Center, OH
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