Nice Metroparks/Audubon walk this morning at Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. Highlights were a Red-necked Grebe in Gordon Park Marina, a large number of American Tree Sparrows still lingering, a Vesper Sparrow (only seen by one of the group, although it was seen by others not on the walk), and a wide variety of other sparrows. Most exciting was probably an apparent fly over Yellow-headed Blackbird that several people saw well enough to feel confident in the ID. That bird is not on the linked ebird checklist, since I did not see it. One of the other participants will add it to the list with his observations.

Laura Gooch
Cleveland Heights



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>Subject: eBird Report - Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve, Apr 20, 2014
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>Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve, Cuyahoga, US-OH
>Apr 20, 2014 7:30 AM - 11:20 AM
>Protocol: Traveling
>1.4 mile(s)
>Comments:     Audubon walk led by me. Entrance area counterclockwise to "beak", along outer breakwall to middle path to recently capped area (sparrow field) and return to gate via same route as entry. 45-65 F, &lt; 10 kt southwest winds, clear.
>47 species (+3 other taxa)
>
>Canada Goose  6
>Wood Duck  1
>Mallard  4
>Greater/Lesser Scaup  2
>Bufflehead  4
>Red-breasted Merganser  75
>Wild Turkey  2
>Red-necked Grebe  1     Bill about the same length as head. Yellow lower mandible. Red coming in on neck and breast. White cheek patch. Black "knobs" on sides of back of head. See well by entire group.
>Double-crested Cormorant  30
>Great Blue Heron  4
>Great Egret  1
>Green Heron  1
>Turkey Vulture  15
>Cooper's Hawk  1
>Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk  1
>Red-tailed Hawk  3
>Bonaparte's Gull  50
>Ring-billed Gull  X
>Herring Gull  X
>Caspian Tern  3
>Mourning Dove  4
>Belted Kingfisher  1
>Downy Woodpecker  3
>Northern Flicker  10
>Blue Jay  10
>crow sp.  4     Fly overs without vocalization. Fish Crow were seen at this location on 19 April 2014.
>Northern Rough-winged Swallow  6
>Barn Swallow  20
>Black-capped Chickadee  1
>Tufted Titmouse  1
>Brown Creeper  1
>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
>Hermit Thrush  1
>American Robin  100
>Eastern Towhee  6
>American Tree Sparrow  30     Numerous birds well seen. Seemingly every other sparrow we looked at was a Tree Sparrow.
>Chipping Sparrow  20
>Field Sparrow  5
>Vesper Sparrow  1
>Savannah Sparrow  8
>Fox Sparrow  2
>Song Sparrow  12
>Swamp Sparrow  6
>White-throated Sparrow  3
>Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  10
>Northern Cardinal  8
>Red-winged Blackbird  150
>Common Grackle  2
>Brown-headed Cowbird  40
>American Goldfinch  35
>
>View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17983638
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>This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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