Hi Everyone, This morning I stopped at Shaker Lakes again, still hoping some of the great news from Magee would be reproduced‹no such luck, though I did have a Canada Warbler. At 3:30 PM, I spent about an hour at Erie Street Cemetery in downtown Cleveland. Not a warbler or vireo in sight, but some nice birds nonetheless. For those who don¹t know it, this is a small place between east 14th and East 9th Streets in downtown Cleveland. There are just some scattered trees and bits of shrubbery around, so what birds there are, are pretty easy to see. And there¹s something about the place that seems to reassure a lot of birds; in any event, I get pretty close to a lot of birds I would ordinarily not expect to see so close up. I had: White-crowned sparrows‹lots! White-throated sparrows‹several Chipping Sparrow‹one(!) Song Sparrow‹2 Northern Cardinal‹several Northern Flicker‹as usual, there were several on the ground, among the flocks of European Starling House Sparrow‹quite a few as usual Olive-sided Flycatcher‹1 Chimney Swift‹6 American Robin‹scattered throughout Brown-headed Cowbird‹1 But the best birds were these: I had a pair of thrushes that looked like Gray-Cheeked Thrush to me; I wasn¹t positive about the i.d. until I saw another pair of thrushes in another area, that turned out to be Swainson¹s Thrush. That clinched the first i.d.s All these birds were out in the open and easy to see‹and pretty easy to get close to. One of the Swainson¹s flew into a bush, where I found a Brown Thrasher (I later saw another Thrasher in another area) as well as an Eastern Phoebe. Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cleveland Hts ----- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] 216-932-2753 www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]