Summit Lake gave up some first-of-season finds this afternoon...

North end in canal:
   lone drake canvasback

South end from the new boardwalk offering excellent views:
   many Am. coots
   one pied billed grebe
   handsome pair of northern shovelers
   pair of ruddy ducks
   one ring necked duck

At Firestone Metro Park:
   two rusty blackbirds
   killdeer calling overhead
   wood duck heard but not seen

CVNP Tuesday night:

At Bath Rd/Cuyahoga river:
   green winged teal, as reported on this list, in the river south the Bath
Rd bridge.
   wood ducks in river north of the Bath Rd bridge.
   plenty of great blue herons in the heronry.

At "Beaver Marsh" on Riverview Rd. (north of Ira trailhead):
    one American wigeon
    a bunch of scaup? or ring necked? (it was pretty dusk at this point)
    wood ducks

At Horseshoe Pond (Major Rd.)
   red breasted nuthatches heard but not seen in their usual hotspot, spruce
woods along boardwalk

Red winged blackbirds are everywhere in modest numbers, including 8 females.

No mergansers anywhere! Yet.

Karen Gray
Copley / Summit Co.

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