Greetings - 
From 7:30 a.m. till 11:30 a.m., Emil Bacik and I did a lakewatch from atop the bluff of Miller Road Park, which lies immediately to the west of the Avon Lake Powerplant. Sustained WNW winds at 10-15 mph and a passing front between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. pushed a fair number of birds west to east. The watch died almost completely around 11:15 a.m. An incredible number of Monarchs were coming off the lake from 11 a.m. onward, with several hundred seen shore-bound. The juvenile Sabine's Gull was a fair ways out and required a scope, viewed well, then, as it passed quickly to the east amidst a stream of Ring-billed Gulls. 
Canada Goose - 25 Mallard - 12Blue-winged Teal - 24Double-crested Cormorant - 260Turkey Vulture - 35Osprey - 1 (longshore migrant, west to east)unidentified shorebird sp - 1 (likely Sanderling)Great Black-backed Gull - 3Herring Gull - 600+Ring-billed Gull - 2000+Bonaparte's Gull - 6SABINE'S GULL - single juvenile, west to east at 9:20 a.m.Caspian Tern - 5Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (observed flying ashore)Chimney Swift - 500+ Barn Swallow - 4Purple Martin - 1
cheers Jen


Jen Brumfield 
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Cleveland, Ohio
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