Hi All,
In order to prepare for the Sustainability Week in Forest Hill Park (in
Cuyahoga County‹the park is in Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland) bird
walk this Sunday morning, I went over the ground starting about 8 this
morning. Not a lot, but some nice birds. My walk started off with a bang‹too
bad I can¹t arrange for this to happen again on Sunday:
As I got up to the Cleveland Heights softball diamonds, I saw a red-tailed
hawk and a Cooper¹s hawk circling over the Great Meadow. Good start. Then I
saw an immature Cooper¹s Hawk in a tree ahead of me. Then I heard crows
calling, and turned around to see two Cooper¹s Hawks doing a poor job of
evading a good-size group of American Crows‹probably fifty in all. The Coops
just flew around, even through the group of crows. Clearly they weren¹t
experienced in this sort of thing. Then a hawk called, and I saw one on top
of a softball backstop. The two immatures got to the same backstop, and then
more‹in the end, there were no fewer than six Cooper¹s hawks on the
backstop! One, clearly larger than the others, was the adult female, and one
in mature male plumage stood out. But that suggests four fledglings! Pretty
cool!
My list for the walk was:
Red-talied Hawk (3 sightings‹at least 2 different individuals)
Cooper¹s Hawk- 6
American Crow- ~50
Blue Jay- ~12
Downy Woodpecker- 2 or 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker- 4
Northern Flicker- 5
Pileated Woodpecker (heard only)
Canada Goose- (many, of course)
Mallard-2
American Robin-many dozens
Swainson¹s Thrush-3
Hermit Thrush-1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet-many
Warblers‹only one each of only three species:
Black-polled
Yellow-rumped
Palm
Sparrows:
White-crowned-1
White-throated- a few seen, many heard
Mourning Dove-2
European Staring-4
There was a pretty good selection of fall wildflowers‹goldenrods, asters,
eupatoriums‹but the cold and wind seemed to be keeping most of the insects
down.
Best wishes,
Steve Cagan
Cleveland Heights (Cuyahoga County)
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