Friday, March 12, 2010, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Edgewater Park (Cleveland Lakefront State Park) West Memorial Shoreway, Cleveland Partly cloudy, 63 F, wind from SE at 11 mph gusting to 20 mph Flight direction: West to East Observer: Paula Lozano & Bob Finkelstein Today there is a lot more open water west of the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. However, these areas are not close enough to shore to identify any of the distant ducks except red-breasted mergansers. The following are sightings from Perkins Fishing Access and the east end of the upper field: BBB (Big Black Bird - temporary id until Buzzard Day) - 5 Northern Harrier - 1, male Red-shouldered Hawk - 1, immature; bathing in puddle behind restroom building Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Killdeer - 2 American Crow - XX (estimate ~3 dozen), migrating but also on ice eating fish Paula Lozano Lakewood, Ohio = ______________________________________________________________________ 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]