My mom and I found the Great Cormorant around 4:15 PM looking from the old
Coast Guard station. It was in a similar position to what Steve
described. We got great looks of the bill and side through my scope for
about 15 minutes before we watched it hunker down and tuck its head down
too. Couldn't tell it apart from the others after that.
Spotted an Eared Grebe (life bird) and Pied Billed Grebe from the pier by
the Lorain impoundment later on this evening (around 6:30 PM). A large
variety of ducks were in the impoundment. Best of the bunch for me were a
few Gadwall and several Redheads (hadn't seen any yet before today, this
year). Couldn't find the Long-tailed Duck when I was there. Scanned the
rocks where it's so often been seen but had no luck. Another day...
Happy Birding!
Kristen Stillwell
Oberlin
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Steve Cagan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Beth and I decided to try for the Great Cormorant this afternoon. We did
> get some relatively good looks at a little before 3 PM. The bird was
> sitting atop the west breakwall, clearly visible and identifiable with a
> scope from the old Coast Guard station. At that time it was sitting by
> itself, with a few Double-crested Cormorants below. The white throat and
> white “pocket” or “hip patch” were easy to make out, as were the relatively
> huskier head and neck.
>
> At about 3:30, doing a final scan from the Wendy Park parking area, the
> bird was gone.
>
> We also had many Red-breasted Mergansers, perhaps as many as 1000s, and a
> large number of Bonaparte’s Gulls—a couple of hundred—with their hoods
> coming in. Much smaller numbers of Ring-billed Gulls (we later saw more
> being fed bread at the 55th Street marina) and just a few Herring. I also
> had two male Common Merganser fly-overs, a couple of Mallards, and a couple
> of American Coots. We heard a Belted Kingfisher, and had a few Song
> Sparrows and a bunch of American Robins, and a few Canada Goose.
>
> The rest of the stops along the lake, going east as far as the turning
> basin next to Dike 14, produced remarkably little, and nothing new.
>
> Also, yesterday at Shaker Lakes, among the expected Canada Goose, mallards
> (very few) and Wood Duck (one pair), we had a pair of Pied-billed Grebes
> and a Belted Kingfisher.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Steve Cagan
> Cleveland Heights
> Cuyahoga County
>
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