Hi all, Beth and I got in a little birding this weekend, and were happy to see some friends in the field as well. Yesterday, Saturday, we went to Shaker Lakes. There wasnıt much activity there, honestly, but there were two nice sightings: A pair of Bufflehead, which are not do common there A common Loon in full alternate plumage Today, Sunday, we went to a few spots: Wildwood/Villa Angela: There, we saw pretty much what Nancy A had already reported: -lots of Red-breasted Mergansersmany hundreds. A few small groups of males courting remaining available females -Ring-billed Gulls -Belted Kingfisher (2) -One male Horned Grebe, in nearly full alternate plumage -one pair of Lesser Scaup -a couple of pairs of Redheads -just a few Mallards -and the predictable speciesAmerican Robin, Northern Cardinal, House Sparrows, Rock Pigeons, European Starlings, Canada Goose and as many as about 10 Turkey Vultures Dike 14 turning basin: -scores of pairs of Lesser Scaup (we canıt say with certainty that we had any Greaters) -three Blue-winged Teal -a few each of Bufflehead, Horned Grebe, Redhead -a pair of Ring-necked Duck -surprisingly small number of Mallards -lots of American Robins on the grass, some Canada Geese and Turkey Vultures Erie Street Cemetery: -4 Woodcock (we heard from Paula Lozano and Bob Finklestein that there had been as many as 13, one of which was eaten by a Cooperıs Hawk) -2 Fox Sparrows (we also heard there had been at least one more earlier) -1 American Tree Sparrow -1 eastern Towhee (female) -dozens of Song Sparrows -dozens of Dark-eyed Juncos, many of which were trilling -1 Cooperıs Hawk -1Peregrine Falcon Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cuyahoga County -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan www.stevecagan.blogspot.com http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/stevecagan 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]