I birded the Lake Erie Bluffs in lake County from about 6:50-10:30 this morning. There were a lot of birds moving both over the lake and overland. In all, 83 species were seen. On the lake highlights were little gull- 1 adult, Caspian tern-8, surf scoter- 1 adult male, great egret- 1. Inland highlights were northern flickers- 126, hermit thrush-15, brown thrasher-5, lapland longspur- 6, Louisiana waterthrush- 1, pine warbler-1, vesper sparrow- 1, fox sparrow- 12, song sparrow- 68, and purple finch 2. Canada Goose 37 Wood Duck 2 Gadwall 2 Mallard 6 Blue-winged Teal 4 Green-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Duck 6 Surf Scoter 1 Common Goldeneye 2 Hooded Merganser 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1104 Common Loon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 1744 There was a steady flow of cormorants heading east along the lake. The largest flock consisted of over 220 birds. Great Blue Heron 5 Great Egret 1 Turkey Vulture 92 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 5 Red-tailed Hawk 5 Killdeer 3 Wilson's Snipe 2 Bonaparte's Gull 864 Little Gull 1 An adult little gull passed by along the lake heading east. the dark underwings, pale gray upperwings with a white trailing edge were noted. the bird had an incomplete hood and had a fan shaped white tail. it was travelling with Bonaparte's gulls. Ring-billed Gull 972 Herring Gull 124 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Caspian Tern 68 Forster's Tern 2 Mourning Dove 8 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Downy Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker 126 Pileated Woodpecker 1 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 44 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Purple Martin 5 Tree Swallow 24 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 3 House Wren 1 Winter Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 11 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 1 Hermit Thrush 15 American Robin 61 Brown Thrasher 5 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 166 Lapland Longspur 6 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Pine Warbler 1 American Tree Sparrow 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 12 Dark-eyed Junco 42 White-throated Sparrow 1 Vesper Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 84 Swamp Sparrow 16 Eastern Towhee 4 Northern Cardinal 14 Red-winged Blackbird 523 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Rusty Blackbird 29 Common Grackle 122 Brown-headed Cowbird 189 Purple Finch 2 American Goldfinch 26 John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]