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richard banish <[log in to unmask]>
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richard banish <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 2 May 2011 21:41:21 -0400
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i must start by stating that @ 6:49 this
morning i saw one of the willoughby hills
bald eagles "sunning" him/herself just above his/her
nest on my way to work.
 
after school to gordon park
4:05 @ boat launch 52* (feels colder)
breeze out of northeast
Bay
Red-breasted Mergansers - 5 (all female)
Bufflehead - 1 (male)
Canada Geese - 22
Barn Swallow - 1
Ring-billed Gulls - 20+
 
4:15 west of ICYC
Great Crested Cormorants - 3
Canada Geese - 6 (plus 2 goslings)
Red-breasted Mergansers - 7 (only 1 male)
Green Heron - 1
Turkey Vultures - 7 (in kettle over Dike 14)
Barn Swallows - 6
Song Sparrows - 2
American Coots - 3
<50 Gulls out and about (all Ring-billed)
 
time to check out a new place - headed
a few miles east to euclid beach.
i walked up the main sidewalk and up
the sidewalk above the beach and headed
west to the peir-like steps and then down
to the beach which i went to the end of
the trailer park to the east.
Barn Swallows - 8
Veery - 1
Palm Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
White Crowned Sparrows - 3
Chimney Swifts - 4
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1
Beach - in water
Red-breasted Mergansers - 2
Ring-billed Gulls - 41
 
down to the rock hall @ 6:00
Barn Swallows - dozens
Tree Swallows - dozens
 both seemed to be reaping the benefits
 of the current grass cutting going on
American Coots - 4 (in inner harbor)
 
8:00 Rock Hall
still have the dozens of Barn and Tree Swallows
and now add
4 or 5 "old sam peabody" singers!!
 
final note is that i saw chimney swifts pretty much
non-stop from gordon park thru bratenahl all the way 
to euclid beach - twittering and flapping the whole way!
 
buster
 
 
 
 
 
                                          
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