Hi all,

Beth and I got in a little birding this weekend, and were happy to see some
friends in the field as well.

Yesterday, Saturday, we went to Shaker Lakes. There wasn¹t much activity
there, honestly, but there were two nice sightings:

A pair of Bufflehead, which are not do common there
A common Loon in full alternate plumage

Today, Sunday, we went to a few spots:

Wildwood/Villa Angela:

There, we saw pretty much what Nancy A had already reported:

-lots of Red-breasted Mergansers‹many hundreds. A few small groups of males
courting remaining available females
-Ring-billed Gulls
-Belted Kingfisher (2)
-One male Horned Grebe, in nearly full alternate plumage
-one pair of Lesser Scaup
-a couple of pairs of Redheads
-just a few Mallards
-and the predictable species‹American Robin, Northern Cardinal, House
Sparrows, Rock Pigeons, European Starlings, Canada Goose and as many as
about 10 Turkey Vultures

Dike 14 turning basin:

-scores of pairs of Lesser Scaup (we can¹t say with certainty that we had
any Greaters)
-three Blue-winged Teal
-a few each of Bufflehead, Horned Grebe, Redhead
-a pair of Ring-necked Duck
-surprisingly small number of Mallards
-lots of American Robins on the grass, some Canada Geese and Turkey Vultures

Erie Street Cemetery:

-4 Woodcock (we heard from Paula Lozano and Bob Finklestein that there had
been as many as 13, one of which was eaten by a Cooper¹s Hawk)
-2 Fox Sparrows (we also heard there had been at least one more earlier)
-1 American Tree Sparrow
-1 eastern Towhee (female)
-dozens of Song Sparrows
-dozens of Dark-eyed Juncos, many of which were trilling
-1 Cooper¹s Hawk
-1Peregrine Falcon

Best wishes,

Steve Cagan
Cuyahoga County

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