I went to Sims Park in Euclid today from 3:15pm to 5pm. There seemed to be less scoters this afternoon than there were on 11/13 when I saw 13 scoters (12 in the water & 1 flying east)after 3pm. (For the record I did see 45-50 Tundra Swans flying in from the lake far east of the pier on 11/13 around 3:50pm as I was getting ready to walk off the pier when I heard yelping dogs and went back to see them)  Today I found one female Black Scoter associating with four female Scaup.  After I arrived large numbers of Red-breasted Mergansers flew in from the east from the Eastlake Power Plant direction and landed far west of the pier at Sims.  They continued to hop-skip back east in a feeding frenzy and this continued several times and then later they dispersed.  Here is what I could find:

Red-breasted Mergansers 2500-3000 (my best guess)
Black Scoter 1 female (with 4 female scaup)
Bonaparte's Gulls - small number
Lesser Scaup 6 (1m, 5f)
Bufflehead 5
Ruddy Ducks 4
Common Goldeneye 2
WILSON'S WARBLER 1
Tufted Titmouse 6

When I arrived and walked from the parking lot east of Henn Mansion as soon as I reached the chain link fence on the driveway I saw the Wilson's Warbler in a bush east of the driveway.  Then it flew down to the left (west) of the driveway down from the wooden bench and was foraging in the plants, bushes, leaves.  It kept returning to the same area.  At one point I could hear it making a tiny little call like part of a Winter Wrens call.  I looked in Peterson's Warbler book and they said something similar in their book.  

Nancy Anderson
Richmond Hts, OH
Northeastern Cuyhahoga County
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/

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