Yesterday, Julie West led a walk about the Lower Lake of the Shaker Lakes (Cuyahoga Co.). There was little bird activity for the date, but 57 species were tallied. Highlights included ... Common Loon - 1 Bufflehead - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 7 (moving overhead) Great Blue Heron - 11 (10 high overhead) Bonaparte's Gull - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 4 (also high-flying migrants) Chimney Swift - 23 Tree Swallow - 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6 Barn Swallow - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 47 Hermit Thrush - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 18 Black-throated Green Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 2 Pine Warbler - 1 Vesper Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 wrens were conspicuously absent and today, walking back from my local mechanic on Chagrin Blvd after dropping off the car, I had a pair of mockingbirds at the Chagrin entrance of the Sunrise Senior Living residence at the corner of Lee & Chagrin. These are my first Shaker mockingbirds, although I had one visiting Gary Meszaros just down the road in Beachwood in Oct 2001. cheers Vic Fazio Shaker Heights, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]