I birded the tower at lake Erie Bluffs in Lake County this morning for a couple hours. Despite southwest winds, it was much cooler today and a lot less birds. Yesterday i saw close to 9,000 blue jays, today about 1,000. There was a little more activity on the lake today with more Caspian terns and cormorants, but nothing else of note. I saw a lot fewer songbirds migrating with only yellow, palm and yellow-rumped warblers. The only birds of note were 11 black-bellied plovers that were heading west.


Lake Erie Bluffs- Clark Road, Lake, Ohio, US
Apr 28, 2017 7:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Partly cloudy with southwest winds. The temperatures were noticeably cooler compared with yesterday. Almost immediately it was evident there were a lot fewer birds moving today and that ended up being the case.
52 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  67
Wood Duck  9
Mallard  6
Lesser Scaup  1
Red-breasted Merganser  444
Ruddy Duck  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  5
Turkey Vulture  37
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Black-bellied Plover  11
Killdeer  1
Bonaparte's Gull  4
Ring-billed Gull  331
Herring Gull  67
Caspian Tern  28
Mourning Dove  9
Chimney Swift  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  5
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  4
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Merlin  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Blue Jay  971
American Crow  13
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  68
Purple Martin  12
Tree Swallow  42
Bank Swallow  5
Barn Swallow  24
swallow sp.  200
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  33
Gray Catbird  3
European Starling  73
Yellow Warbler  2
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  11
White-throated Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  5
Eastern Towhee  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  165
Common Grackle  48
Brown-headed Cowbird  78
Orchard Oriole  1
Baltimore Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  172

John Pogacnik

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