Over 20 members of Western Cuyhoga Audubon (along with a changing cast 
of independents) spent most of the morning scoping the flats.  There was 
essentially the same cast as yesterday:  many least and semipalmated sandpipers, 
two spotted sandpipers, one each Baird's and western sandpipers, a few lesser 
and one greater yellowlegs, a dunlin, and two short-billed dowitchers; mallards, 
shovelers, blue-winged teal, wood ducks,two beautiful male ruddy ducks, and a 
couple of immature hooded megansers; coots and common gallinules (adults and 
youngsters); a young black-crowned night heron.  No soras seen today, though 
they're surely still there.

Two Cooper's hawks, a juvenile and an adult, made separate strafing runs the 
lenghth of the water and later a subadult bald eagle drifted past.

Earlier-arriving birders reported a Wilson's phalarope and a stilt sandpiper in 
the north pool but they were gone or hiding when we walked around to the site.

Craig Caldwell
Westlake

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