A late afternoon walk around the Shaker Lakes (east side of Cleveland between Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights) proved that spring has indeed arrived! Migrants included three or four singing Fox Sparrows, an Eastern Towhee, a Brown Creeper, Blue-winged Teal, Hooded Merganser, and Golden-crowned Kinglet. Ebird list follows. Laura Gooch Cleveland Heights -------- Original Message -------- Subject: eBird Report - Shaker Lakes Nature Center , 4/7/11 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 08:24:55 -0400 (EDT) From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Location: Shaker Lakes Nature Center Observation date: 4/7/11 Notes: Overcast, 40 F, NNE 5-10. Scarborough Road at Stillman, around Lower Shaker Lake, to Horseshoe Lake dam, Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, return to start via south side of Lower Shaker Lake. Number of species: 34 Canada Goose 20 Wood Duck 12 American Black Duck 4 Mallard 14 Blue-winged Teal 4 Nature Center Marsh Hooded Merganser 4 Lower Shaker Lake Pied-billed Grebe 8 Lower Shaker Lake and Horseshoe Lake Red-tailed Hawk 1 North Park and Lee Roads Herring Gull 1 gull sp. 2 Mourning Dove 6 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 4 One at freshly-excavated hole in shagbark hickory along Doan Brook, seen from North Park east of Lee Road; another bird singing nearby. Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 9 Tree Swallow 20 Horseshoe Lake Barn Swallow 2 Horseshoe Lake Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 50 European Starling 5 Eastern Towhee 1 Fox Sparrow 3 Two or three singing by south side of Lower Shaker Lake; another singing along Doan Brook between South Park and Lee. Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Northern Cardinal 9 Red-winged Blackbird 7 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]