OLD Kirtland Bird Club NEWS
(in case you missed it!)

                                                Fall 2022 KBC News
​

• Cool website from National Audubon Society:  Bird Migration Explorer - Check it out!

​​

• The CHEERS project to re-develop the lakefront between Lakefront Nature Preserve and Burke Lakefront Airport is one step closer to reality with $3.75 million in funding from the Port of Cleveland to create a detailed plan for the site that will make it "shovel ready".  Read about it HERE.

​

• THE FUTURE OF HORSESHOE LAKE in the Heights (between Shaker & Cleveland Heights) ​Northeast Ohio Sewer District is seeking feedback on their restoration plan to convert Horseshoe Lake into a more natural state - with a meandering creeks and wet areas that will absorb storm water.  The plan has opponents who would like to see Horseshoe Lake stay a lake.  NEORSD has asked for feedback on how people use the park and what they would like to see there. Click HERE to read about the project.  Click HERE then scroll down to complete the survey.  SPEAK UP FOR BIRDS! ​

 

• Kirtland Bird Club fielded 2 teams for the 8th annual Chagrin River Watershed Bird Quest, which took place for 24 hours between Friday, September 9th and 4 PM and Saturday, September 10th at 4 PM.  One of our teams recorded 62 species of birds.  The winning team saw 84 species!  Good fun was had by all!  It was a great opportunity to see Fall migrants - consider joining the Quest next year!

 

• LIGHTS OUT CLEVELAND is up and running again - literally!  Kirtland Bird Club Board member Anna Kozlenko is up before the sun and almost running (as she says) 6-7 miles every Tuesday morning during Fall migration collecting dead and injured birds.  She does this Tuesdays with 5 other volunteers.  Other days there are other volunteers.  Some volunteers go this 2-3 times a week, but there is still a need for more volunteers!  Injured birds are taken to Lake Erie Nature and Science Center to try to save them.  Dead birds are taken to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for further study.  Learn about Lights Out Cleveland HERE or watch the video in the next section of this page below.

                                                      Summer 2022

• What should you do if you find an abandoned bird? or an injured, ill, or dead bird?  Start by checking our new web page!  You can find it under the tab "MORE" on the upper right of this page - Injured, Ill, or Abandoned ​

 

• BIRDERS SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS - Sherwin Williams has agreed to install some bird-friendly windows.  Read the story HERE​.  Contact us at info@kirtlandbirdclub.org to join our Bird Coalition or to get more information.

​

• CUYAHOGA COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER Sunny Simon SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS - Simon invited Matt Schumar and Tim Jasinski from Lights Out Cleveland, a representative from Rocket Mortgage Arena, and KBC's President Patty Kellner to accompany her and her staff from the Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works to tour venues in downtown Cleveland that are hazardous to birds.  Councilwoman Simon has pledged to have bird-safe decals installed on County Buildings where there's a window problem and to continue to work with Lights Out Cleveland and Rocket Mortgage Field House to find ways to reduce bird-building collisions.    

​

• KBC will be an exhibitor at the Summer "Family Reunion" Cookout of our allies at Black Environmental Leaders!  The event will take place Saturday, September 3rd at Edgewater Park from 11 AM to 4 PM.  KBC Members are encouraged to VOLUNTEER to staff our table and/or to take short bird walks with individuals or small groups.  We will have our loaner binoculars at the event. 

​

• Gautam Apte, KBC's February 2021 Gull ID presenter and our April 2022 Weather Effects on Migration speaker,  started his first job as a college graduate on August 1st.  He's been hired to survey birds every morning through all of Fall migration at Cape May Observatory in Cape May, New Jersey.  Click HERE for the link to the site where Gautam reports - in real time!  ​

 

• ICYMI - Great article on Lorain Impoundment - by Black River Audubon Society President Rob Swindell

---

                                                     Spring 2022 ​

• BIRD FLU - Reporting requested!  Numerous Canada Geese and other species of wild birds have been found dead in northeast Ohio and elsewhere without an obvious cause.  A strain of influenza, H5N1, is suspected and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), is checking to see if this strain is the cause.  This is a strain of influenza that typically affects chickens, and it has not been a significant threat to humans in the past.  ODNR asks that people seeing ill or dead birds to report them.  Click HERE to read the page from ODNR on Avian Influenza. 

 

• LIGHTS OUT CLEVELAND is underway.  Click HERE to read about the problem with lights, the program that rescues injured birds, and opportunities to volunteer each Spring and Fall.

​

• The CHEERS project is moving along 

                * Cleveland Metroparks gets $985,000 grant to do design work needed to make the CHEERS
                   plan a reality - read that news HERE               
                * View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke
                   Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE

• BIRDERS SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS and Got Heard by City of Cleveland - Cleveland Planning Commission approved the Sherwin Williams Headquarters design, but set a contingency that requires Sherwin Williams to address the concerns of our birding community and report back!  Read the story HERE​.  Contact us at info@kirtlandbirdclub.org to join our Bird Coalition or to get more information.

---

                                                                        Fall 2021 News

• View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE

​                                                                      Spring 2021 News​

• New Bird Science section on our website!  Go there and hear Scott Wiedensaul talking about migration on NPR
• ​Check out new resources for New Birders
• View the blueprint for The CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront HERE

                                                                     News from 2019-2020

Click here to watch a TV news story about a Multiple Vulture Rescue in Parma
Click here to see a story about KBC member John Barber's work on native plant restoration near the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
Click here to see a story about the BROWN BOOBY visiting Nimisila Reservoir near Akron
Click here to see Collinwood's teenage Bird Nerds on WKYC Channel 5
Click here to read about the Bird Nerds' trip to Mohican State Park and watch a video - it's a lot of fun!

We added these new sections on our website:

      - Backyard Birding - including Bird-Window Collisions
      - Native Plants - including What did NE Ohio Look Like Before White Settlers Arrived?
      - Where did the name KIRTLAND Bird Club come from?  
      - Birding While Black Archive
​      - For New Birders