Lagoon Picnic Area- Annual Picnic
June 3, 2014

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Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society

Picnic, plant exchange and bird walk June 3, 2014

at Cleveland Metroparks Lagoon Picnic Area

 

WCAS members and friends enjoyed a perfect June evening at Lagoon Picnic Area for our annual picnic, plant exchange and bird walk.  A pair of Eastern Phoebes shuttled back and forth to feed young in their nest in the picnic shelter. The plant exchange featured interesting tubers for "Voodoo lily or "corpse plant," (Amorphophallus Konjac)  and lovely native cardinal flowers, along with a variety of unusual plants and garden favorites.  During the bird walk Nancy Howell and Terry Gorges rescued a Canada Goose entangled in fishing line.  Tiny new frogs animated the picnic area on the north area of the lagoon, where birders got great views of a Pileated Woodpecker and four Green Herons silhouetted in tall bare trees.  The call of a Common Nighthawk made the day.

 

 

Bird List

 

Leader: Nancy Howell

19 Birders

41 Species

 

Canada Goose  -- 24 (including 9 babies)

Wood Duck -- 2

Mallard -- 4

Great Blue Heron -- 2

Great Egret -- 2

Green Heron -- 4

Ring-billed Gull -- 1

Barred Owl -- 1

Common Nighthawk -- 1

Chimney Swift -- 6

Belted Kingfisher -- 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker -- 3

Downy Woodpecker -- 1

Hairy Woodpecker -- 2

Pileated Woodpecker -- 1

Eastern Wood Pewee - 2

Acadian Flycatcher -- 1

Eastern Phoebe -- 2 (nesting in picnic shelter)

Great Crested Flycatcher -- 1

Warbling Vireo -- 1

Red-eyed Vireo -- 4

Blue Jay -- 1

Tree Swallow -- 1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- 1

Barn Swallow -- 1

Tufted Titmouse -- 2

White-breasted Nuthatch -- 1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher --1

Eastern Bluebird -- 3

American Robin -- 3

Gray Catbird -- 2

Cedar Waxwing -- 32

Eastern Towhee - 1

Chipping Sparrow -- 2

Song Sparrow -- 1

Northern Cardinal -- 1

Red-winged Blackbird -- 3

Common Grackle -- 5

Brown-headed Cowbird -- 1

Baltimore Oriole -- 1

American Goldfinch -- 2

 


Picnic attendees
Picnic attendees © Barb Warmy

Cardinal Flowers
Cardinal Flowers © Penny O'Connor

Rich, Carol and Nancy
Rich, Carol and Nancy © Penny O'Connor

Rocky River
Rocky River © Penny O'Connor



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