Hi all, This morning there was sunshine for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes walk‹the first two Audubon walks were held in gray and blustery weather‹though it was considerably colder that the previous Sundays. Things started warming up, and insect activity became visible, just as we were all leavingŠ. The birds we had were: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser (two females) Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Green Heron Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Black-caped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird (this is quite an unusual bird for Shaker Lakes) Hermit Thrush (at one point we saw about half a dozen at onceŠ) American Robin Brown Thrasher (gave us great views and a recital from a treetop) Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow. The birds of the day were the Bluebird and the ThrasherŠ On another trip, yesterday, Beth and I went to The Wilderness Center, in Wilmot (Stark Coiunty). Cold, wind, and little showers of snowŠ we had a good walk, with perhaps 30 wildflower species. But few bird species: Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Mallard Wood Duck Ruddy Duck Spotted Sandpiper Gray Catbird Yellow Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Best wishes to all, Steve Cagan Cleveland heights, Cuyahoga County -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] € www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan € www.stevecagan.blogspot.com 216-932-2753 (USA) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]