Despite the cool temperatures, overcast skies and slight sprinkles, the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve had some good species today, Sunday, Sept. 3, from 8:15 to 11:30 AM. It will, no doubt get better as weather systems bring in birds. If you go on Labor Day, watch the traffic from the Cleveland Air Show. Here is the list I had from today: Canada Goose 2 Mallard 5 Double -crested Cormorant 19 Great Blue Heron 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 12 Herring Gull 6 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 15 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 8 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Least Flycatcher 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Unusual plumage in that it had patches of white feathers on the belly and the patches of light colored feathers on the wings were almost a pale yellow, but the rest of the bird appeared to have normal colored plumage. Keep an eye out for it. Warbling Vireo 4 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Swallow sp. Too far away to tell Black-capped Chickadee 5 Carolina Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 18 (they were everywhere) Cedar Waxwing 5 Black and White Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 7 American Redstart 4 Magnolia Warbler 6 Bay-breasted Warbler 3 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 13 Northern Cardinal 10 Indigo Bunting 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 22 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]