Hi everyone, Beth and I took a walk in Forest Hill Park this afternoonwe were there for about an hour and a half starting about 5:45. It was a beautiful sunlit, warm (not hot) and windless afternoon. We didnıt get any migrants, but had some nice birds anyway. Things were pretty quiet until we came upon a coupe of puddles left over from the rain of a couple of days back. There we had a mixed group of American Robin, Gray Catbird, Baltimore Oriole, Eastern Kingbird and Cedar Waxwing all bathing and eating gravel. Throughout the park, we had numerous of all the above, as well as numerous: Song Sparrow Chipping Sparrow House Sparrow Eastern Wood-pewee Chimney Swift Great Crested Flycatcher (2) Blue Jay Northern Cardinal Killdeer (one only) Canada Goose Mallard (only one pair) Brown Creeper (one only) Tree swallow (one) Red-bellied Woodpecker Northern Flicker Common Grackle European Starling Mourning Dove Iıd say that the two best birds of the day were seen as a result of large areas of grass gone to seed, on both the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights sides of the park. On the East Cleveland side, we had a Wild Turkey in the grassy area to the northwest of the wildfowl pond. This is a bird we were confident lived in the park, but itıs the first one weıve seen. On the Cleveland Hts side, the so-called Great meadow is completely in seed. In the mowed grass between the meadow and the softball fields, we had terrific close looks at an Eastern Meadowlark! This was a complete, and very happy, surprise! 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]