I was an unopened part of our future Lake Erie Bluffs Park in Painesville/Perry Townships along Lake Erie yesterday (4/10) with Paul and Susie Belanger.  There were a lot of songbirds and gulls moving along the lake heading east.  There were hundreds of blackbirds and robins.  There was also a good flight of northern flickers, mourning doves and a other songbirds.  The gull flight was made up of mainly immature herring with a small number of ring-billed gulls.  Of note with the gulls was a third cycle NELSON'S GULL (Glaucous x herring hybrid).  Also of note were a merlin, 3-4 American kestrels hunting the area, 2 pine warblers.  in the wet woods a lot of the warblers and kinglets were feeding on the ground, giving some great looks.  There were a lot of sapsuckers in the woods also.  Unfortunately around 10:00 the wind switched to the north and shut the migration of completely.  We just made it back to the cars as the heavy rain hit.

John Pogacnik                                     
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