DEC. 30, 2010 - E. 72nd. St., Lake Erie, Cleveland Lakefront State Park. TIME: 8:10am-10:30am TEMP.: 33-38 COND.: Icy giving way to warmer temps; Cloudy. FT.MI.: 1.50 OBS.: Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager. I. MAMMALS: 2 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 3 2. Meadow Vole - 1 II. BIRDS: 27 SPECIES. 1. Canada Goose - 88 2. Gadwall - 1 (m) 3. American Black Duck - 11 4. Mallard - 34 (22m,12f) 5. Canvasback - 10 (9m,1f) 6. Redhead - 27 (16m,11f) 7. Lesser Scaup - 60 (45m,15f) 8. Long-tailed Duck - 1 (m) 9. Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (m) 10. Merlin - 1 (f - being chased by adult male Peregrine) 11. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult m chasing Merlin - dogfight ends in a stalemate!) 12. Ring-billed Gull - (about 400) 13. Herring Gull - (about 60 - 1 with broken wing) 14. Great Black-backed Gull - 1 15. Rock Pigeon - 4 16. Mourning Dove - 1 17. Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1 18. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 19. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (m) 20. American Robin - 11 21. Northern Mockingbird - 1 (N. Marginal Rd. ) 22. European Starling - 88 23. American Tree Sparrow - 4 24. Dark-eyed Junco - 8 (5m,3f) 25. Northern Cardinal - 2 (1m,1*) 26. American Goldfinch - 1 27. House Sparrow - 6 Highlights from WHISKEY ISLAND/WENDY PARK include: 1. Double-crested Cormorant - 3 2. Ring-billed Gull - (thousands) 3. Herring Gull - (200+) 4. Glaucous Gull - 1 5. Great Black-backed Gull - 4 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, 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]