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Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:54:39 +0000
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Greetings all - 
A birding tour today, scouring the lakefront from Avon Lake Powerplant east to East 72nd and Cleveland Lakefront State Park turned up an incredible January array of highlights and brilliant weather for hiking up the 2011 list on Day 2 of the new year. Fifteen species of waterfowl was a highlight, out of 47 species total for the day. 
Two juvenile POMARINE JAEGERS were found, the first from Rocky River Park, the second at East 72nd just out from the warm water outflow. The Rocky River Park bird was distant to the east, but put on a show soaring and gliding around offshore. The 72nd bird was pretty stunning, as it was sitting on the ice flow just out from the hotwaters area. Incredible scope looks and point-blank photos were obtained. The bird picked up off the ice nearly 20 minutes after the initial observation, wheeled around for killer looks, and headed west towards East 55th, out towards the far breakwall. A really tough bird to get in January, it's pretty stunning that three separate Poms were seen/reported today. 
Additional highlights: a single WHITE-WINGED SCOTER just off of Bradstreet Landing (Rocky River), two first-year ICELAND GULLS in close on the ice flow at Bradstreet Landing (D. Adams took brilliant photos of the two birds in flight together), a single flyover COMMON REDPOLL at Bradstreet Landing, Lesser Black-backed Gull and light morph Rough-legged Hawk at Wendy Park, the continuing LONG-TAILED DUCK observed between East 55th and East 72nd, a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk at Cleveland Lakefront State Park. 
Avon Lake Powerplant: waterfowl fairly plentiful with Canvasback most abundant followed by Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye and Redhead. Huntington Reservation: good numbers of Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, and a few Common Mergansers, plus four Bald Eagles. Bradstreet Landing: few waterfowl but White-winged Scoter, Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers, goldeneye, and a fair amount of Herring, Ring-billed, and Great Black-backed Gulls congregating. Wendy Park is mostly open with a nice spattering of ice flows. Here the large gulls are in fair number, but only a single Lesser Black-backed (adult) was found, plus Canvasback, Lesser Scaup, Hooded Merganser. East 72nd street held a small number of gulls (including three Bonaparte's), and a spattering of waterfowl including Gadwall, American Black Duck, Canvasback, Redhead, Lesser Scaup. 
best of birding - Jen


Jen Brumfield 
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Cleveland, Ohio
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