There was a good movement of birds at Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark in Lake County this morning. It seems like it has been a while since we have had food migration conditions up here along the lake. There was strong southwest winds and the whole time I watched there was only a few peeks of sunshine so while there were quite a few vultures, only a few hawks were seen so far. The best birds were a group of very vocal fish crows that were headed to the east. Their calls were loud and distinctive. Other birds of note were 2 lesser yellowlegs, 2 lesser black-backed gulls, 1 merlin, 2 purple martins, 9 tree swallows, and a savannah sparrow. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US Mar 24, 2017 7:10 AM - 10:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Weather was mostly cloudy with strong southwest winds. 57 species (+2 other taxa) Canada Goose 26 Wood Duck 18 American Wigeon 4 Mallard 6 Greater Scaup 16 Lesser Scaup 24 Greater/Lesser Scaup 65 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 1 Hooded Merganser 2 Red-breasted Merganser 492 Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 11 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 223 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 8 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Killdeer 37 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Ring-billed Gull 421 Herring Gull 220 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 One first cycle and one third cycle Great Black-backed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 111 Belted Kingfisher 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 8 American Kestrel 9 Merlin 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 380 Fish Crow 1 Four very vocal fish crows were observed heading east. Their nasal calls were easily identifiable as fish crows. There were several american crows also flying in the area, but not close enough for size comparison Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 9 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 Eastern Bluebird 3 American Robin 280 European Starling 145 Cedar Waxwing 6 American Tree Sparrow 11 Fox Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 22 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 156 Numerous migrant flocks of 20-30 birds were seen in several areas Swamp Sparrow 3 Eastern Towhee 1 Northern Cardinal 22 Red-winged Blackbird 1500 Eastern Meadowlark 3 Rusty Blackbird 22 Common Grackle 740 Brown-headed Cowbird 122 blackbird sp. 4000 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]