Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society

Great Backyard Bird Count at Lake Erie Nature and Science Center

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Leader: Christine Cain (LENSC) and Gabe Leidy (WCAS)

19 species, 16 birders

 Huntington Reservation has a variety of habitats. Our wintry walk began at the beach, with fifty Common Goldeye and several gull species. Near the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center was a variety of winter residents. The list from this walk was entered into the Great Backyard Bird Count.

 Bird List(s)

 Huntington Beach 9:15 a.m.

8 species total

  50 - Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula

 25 - Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia

 50 - Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis

100 - Herring Gull Larus argentatus

  2 - Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

 30 - American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

  1 - European Starling Sturnus vulgaris

  7 - House Sparrow Passer domesticus

Ball Field and Grove next to Lake Erie

Nature and Science Center 9:50 a.m.

14 species total

   2 - Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

  1 - Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis

  5 - Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus

  2 - Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens

  4 - Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata

  4 - American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

  3 - Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus

  5 - Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

  7 - White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

  1 - Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

  3 - American Robin Turdus migratorius

  5 - Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  4 - Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

  6 - House Sparrow Passer domesticus

Feeders at Lake Erie Nature and Science

Center 10:40 a.m.

7 species total

   1 - Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus

  1 - Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata

  1 - Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus

  2 - Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

  1 - Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

  2 - Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

  6 - House Sparrow Passer domesticus