From dawn till now, 11:30 am, a mass movement of waterbirds on Lake Erie. This is a partial list. The totals will be reported tonight.

From Rocky River: (JB, Larry Richardson, Helen Taft) (flight direction west to east):
Red-throated Loon (1) amongst 400+ Common Loons. Red-necked Grebe (1) amongst 600 plus Horned Grebes. Long-tailed Duck (1), Snow Goose (2), Pomarine Jaeger (1), White-winged Scoter (68), Surf Scoter (45), Black Scoter (48), Red Knot (1), Dunlin (900), and large numbers of Red-breasted Mergansers, Green-winged Teal and Lesser Scaup with fewer numbers of Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Northern Pintail, black ducks.

From Mentor: (Jerry Talkington, Ray Hannikman)
Harlequin Duck (2), Red Phalarope (1), Parasitic Jaeger (1), Long-tailed Duck (4), Brant (10), plus mass numbers of scoters (over 100 White-wingers and counting), and merge and scaup.

Emil Bacik had TWO Red Phalaropes fly by Headlands lighthouse this am.

Thousands of Bonapartes on the lake now.

More totals soon. The strong NNE winds blasted open one of the flood gates.

JB

Jen Brumfield
Cleveland, OH
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