Friends, I spent a little over1.5 hours at the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve yesterday. This was my first time to visit this location. If anyone is considering this birding spot, it's really impressive and I highly recommend it. Easy to access, easy to park, easy to walk the trail, and a very unusual habitat. I usually hesitate to head to the "city" to do my birding, but this location was a really nice surprise! List observed: Eastern Towhee - 4 BG Gnatcatcher - 12 Common Loon - 2 - East side of the island Red Necked Grebe - 1 - Far southwest side of the island, in the marina area, very close views Brown Thrasher - 2 White Throated Sparrow - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Bufflehead - 2 - both females, off north side of island Northern Flicker - 12 - They were everywhere. I don't recall ever seeing so many flickers. Song Sparrows - 20 See you on the trails! Spencer A. Ryan ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]