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This morning, I stopped at the new city cemetery on Green Road, Cleveland Memorial gardens, a wasteland of mowed grass 
and unaccountably wide  paved roads, with the glass walled PNC Bank on one side. Sometimes large flocks of killdeer 
find it attractive, but the usual inhabitants are c. geese and starlings.  But today, a tiny "wetland" too steep for the
mowers held a surprising two wilson's snipe. I watched then from the car, just fifteen feet away.  I was so taken
by the idea of snipe finding this tiny refuge that I stopped again on the way home this afternoon and found them still
there.  

Continuing along my route to Cleve. Hts. I passed Tower East, and while at the red light saw a peregrine falcon
perched on some pointy object on the top layer of the tower, so, instead of obstructing traffic, I pulled into the parking 
 lot and was rewarded by finding two peregrines.  They flew around the tower together a few times and one settled back on the roof, 
and the other disappeared from view.  

Arriving at my Cleveland Hts. house I kept hearing the call of red breasted nuthatches. There are three huge
spruce trees around the houses, and in each I could find one or two nuthatches hanging from cones, pecking away
to extract seeds.  You could actually see some part of the pine cones fluttering to the ground. They were around
all day.

Also two hermit thrushes in the dogwood, a couple of white throated sparrows and juncos in the yard.

Inga Schmidt
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