Birders, Check out the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve (formerly Dike 14) at some time during fall migration (or really any time). This list is posted a bit late - Sunday, September 9, 2012 from 7:45 AM to 11:25 AM. A checklist was left in the kiosk for others to add their sightings that day. Highlights are in bold. Canada Goose Mallard Northern Shoveler Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Cooper's Hawk Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Empid sp. Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Swainson's Thrush (lots of them) Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird (lots) European Starling Cedar Waxwing Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler (quite a few) Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black and white Warbler American Redstart (lots) Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow (lots along the fence and in the short grass) Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Nancy Howell The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Dr., University Circle Cleveland, OH 44106-1767 [log in to unmask] phone 216.231.4600 ext. 3225 education fax 216.231.9960 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]