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CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT WINTER BIRDING TRAIL (PDF)




 


Wellington & Oberlin Reservoirs,
Carlisle Reservation, &
Sandy Ridge Reservation Local Trip

Sunday, March 10, 2002
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Cloudy, windy and bitterly cold!

Ten cold Kirtland Bird Club members...

49 Species Seen

 

 

Wellington Upground Reservoir -
very cold, windy, waves white-capping

4

 

Pied-billed Grebe

2

 

Canada Goose

14

 

Canvasback

43

 

Redhead

100

 

Ring-necked Duck

20

 

Lesser Scaup

300

 

Scaup spp.

1

 

Bufflehead

1

 

Red-breasted Merganser

1

 

Ruddy Duck

1

 

Sharp-shinned Hawk

150

 

American Coot

3

 

Rock Dove

2

 

Common Grackle

 

 

 

 

 

Jones Road, West Road &
Caley National Wildlife Woods
-
very cold, windy

50

 

Canada Goose

2

 

Mallard

3

 

Red-tailed Hawk

2

 

American Kestrel

2

 

Killdeer

44

 

Horned Lark

5

 

Eastern Bluebird

6

 

American Robin  

1

 

Song  Sparrow

 

 

 

 

 

Oberlin Reservoir -
ducks at south end;
too bitterly cold to scope/count

1

 

Great Blue Heron

1

 

Herring Gull

 

 

 

 

 

Carlisle Reservation -
birded inside Visitor Center and at Duck Pond

 

 

Live birds on display:
Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel,
Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl

XX

 

Canada Goose

XX

 

Mallard

XX

 

Mourning Dove

2

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker (female & male)

5

 

Downy Woodpecker

1

 

Blue Jay

2

 

Black-capped Chickadee

2

 

Tufted Titmouse

2

 

White-breasted Nuthatch

1

 

American Tree Sparrow

1

 

Fox Sparrow

2

 

Song Sparrow

6

 

Dark-eyed Junco

6

 

Northern Cardinal

20

 

House Finch

12

 

American Goldfinch

 

 

 

 

 

Sandy Ridge Reservation -
still bitterly cold, windy, trees down on path and in woods

XX

 

Canada Goose

XX

 

Gadwall

XX

 

Mallard

XX

 

Ring-necked Duck

2

 

Hooded Merganser

1

 

Bald Eagle - landed on muskrat house, picked-up material & returned to woodlot

32

 

American Coot

2

 

Sandhill Crane - feeding in impoundment east of main N/S path

6

 

Killdeer

1

 

Common Snipe

4

 

Ring-billed Gull

1

 

Great Horned Owl - in nest on eastern edge of property; tree w/nest in woodlot blown

1

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker - female

1

 

Downy Woodpecker - female

12

 

American Robin

XX

 

European Starling

XX

 

Red-winged Blackbird

1

 

Rusty Blackbird

X

 

Common Grackle

12

 

Brown-headed Cowbird

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also seen:
American Crow in many locations.

...and a cold Downy!

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Pictures courtesy of Joe Polevoi

Page last updated on Tuesday, December 18, 2001