Begin forwarded message: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Renee <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:57 PM > Subject: Cackling Geese and More at Summit Lake > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Summit County > 5 minute stop at Chestnut Memorial Gardens (Cemetery on Chestnut > Blvd in Cuyahoga Falls): > The Black Swans are always there (wings are clipped). This is a great > place though has it's share of "mixed- up" ducks (and geese). Though > migrants do stop over. > There was one Greater White-fronted Goose today. > 10 minute visit to Cascade Metropark: > Gray Catbird 1 > Eastern bluebird 1F > White Throated Sparrow 1 > Robins 15 > Cardinals 2M 2F > > Summit Lake: Days like this make me think it's time to invest in a > scope, better binoculars, more memory cards, camera lenses.... Or else > I've just read to many post -Thanksgiving shopping ads. > Small flock of Cackling Geese. Minimum of 11 birds. Wished them to > stand next to a fireplug or something to prove their size on photos. Do > have a couple of them backdropped against the large number of Canada > Geese. > > Pied Billed Grebe 7 > Horned Grebe 2 > Red Tailed Hawk 1 > Sharp Shinned Hawk 1 > American Black Duck 3 > Northern Shovelers 150 or so M / F combined > Common Merganser 2 F > Hooded Mergansers hundreds of both M & F > Ring Necked Duck 175 Mostly F > Ruddy Duck 2 M 15 or more F > Canvasback Duck 2 F > Common Goldeneye 1 F > Blue Winged Teal 1 > Great Blue Heron 1 > American Coots and Mallards surprisingly outnumbered by many of the > aforementioned species. > > Didn't look closely at the gulls today. Mostly ring billed. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]