Hi Everyone, Beth and I spent an hour or so at NCSL, on the border between Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights, this morning. It was generally pretty quiet‹or more accurately there was a low level of activity, though the birds that were there were doing a lot of singing. They included: Lots of singing from Song Sparrows throughout the area Trilling from the small number of Dark-eyed Juncos Lots of singing and calling from American Goldfinches Drumming by Hairy Woodpecker and Calls by Downy Woodpeckers and red-belied Woodpeckers Calls by Herring Gulls Calls by Canada Geese In addition, we had: Wood Duck‹three pairs Mallard- only 3-4 pair Great Blue Heron-1 House Finch Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse American Robin Mourning Dove Blue Jay European Starling Cooper¹s Hawk‹2 flyovers at Lower Lake, though we¹d be hard-put to say if they were two birds or the same one twice And our first of the year Golden-crowned Kinglets‹one pair seen from the boardwalk, and a few heard around Lower Lake The sun came out (a rare phenomenon around here lately) and everyone¹s new plumage was just brilliant! Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.elchocomining.net 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]