I took a vac B-day and went to Wildwood State Park on the east side of Cleveland this morning from 11:00am to after 4:30pm. I was able to bird with Mark Anderson from around 1 to 3:30pm. It started lightly raining after 3pm. There were northeast winds, it was already cold but became colder near the end. Mostly Yellow-rumped Warblers today, White-throated and more White-crowned Sparrows. Were multiple hundreds of Common Grackles and European Starlings filled the woods. Here are some of the birds we saw today: Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 adults Bonaparte's Gull - only 1 Chimney Swifts - 40+ (came very low to the ground today) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 (pine tree near trailer park fenceline) White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Winter Wren 1, House Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6-7, Ruby-crowned ~ 20 Hermit Thrush 3, un'ID thrush 2 European Starlings 150+ Warblers: Orange-crowned 1 (near lake asphalt path around 3:45pm in rain) Nashville 3 Yellow-rumped 45+ Palm 1 Wilson's 1 Eastern Towhee 1, Song Sparrow 4-5, White-throated 40+, White-crowned 16-18 Dark-eyed Junco 15+ Common Grackle 150+ Also, on Sunday, October 11th Mark & I saw two Eastern Meadlowlarks in the field north of the library Sims Park - Euclid 10/16 after 10am Red-breasted Mergansers - only 17 in water east of park Double-crested Cormorants - 80 seen in 13 minutes flying east Eastern Phoebe 1 Many Juncos, Yellow-rumps, White-throated Sparrows Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, 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]