Blackbrook Audubon of Lake County had a walk this morning and after the walk and lunch some people went to Veterans Park on Hopkins Rd in Mentor (Lake Cty) to see the ducks that have been there. (Anders & Joyce Fjeldstad, Tom & Alice Feran, Jeanne Hrenko, and myself and Helen Baber) Seeing the ducks was distracted by a large Turkey Vulture and Hawk migration moving east along Lake Erie. There was a bonus of 8 SANDHILL CRANES. There wasn't much wind and some of the birds came in real low but after an hour cooler wind came from the north and moved some of the birds further inland but the weather changed again and more birds were visible. Here is what was seen: 13 Kettles of Raptors: 528 Turkey Vultures Bald Eagles 2 (1st & 2nd year) Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 9 Broad-winged Hawk 12 Red-tailed Hawk 9 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 1 24 Un-ID's Buteos Sandhill Cranes 8 Tree Swallows - 6 or more new today Also there were those ducks: Wood Ducks - flew over Northern Shovelers Ring-necked Ducks - many many Gadwall-few, American Wigeon-few, Scaup, Bufflehead, Ruddy Ducks 3 or 4, American Coots, Horned Grebe, Mute Swans Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]