Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society

Puritas Wetland Field Trip

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Leaders: Liz McQuaid and Garrett Ormiston

Puritas Wetland  is a detention basin around the West Branch of Big Creek in Cleveland bounded by West 130th and West 150th Streets, I-480 and Puritas Avenue.  Perimeter birding yielded a Wilson's Warbler and nesting Red-tailed hawks. WCAS members and friends joined neighborhood residents and birding buddies from Facebook.

38 Birders, 39 Species

Canada Goose  6

Mallard 5

Great Blue Heron  7

Great Egret  2

Green Heron  1                   

Red-tailed Hawk   2

Sora  1     heard early near red-tail hawk nest.

Killdeer  5

Spotted Sandpiper  3

Solitary Sandpiper  1

Ring-billed Gull   43

Rock Pigeon  14

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  4

Downy Woodpecker  1

Willow Flycatcher   4

Warbling Vireo  2

American Crow  2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow   5

Barn Swallow 15

House Wren  3

Marsh Wren 3

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin   7

Gray Catbird  2

European Starling   12

Cedar Waxwing   12

Common Yellowthroat  5

Yellow Warbler   7

Wilson's Warbler   1     Observed by the majority of the group.

Song Sparrow  3

Northern Cardinal  3

Red-winged Blackbird  34

Common Grackle  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  4

Baltimore Oriole   5

House Finch   1

American Goldfinch  3

House Sparrow  27