Greetings- things are slightly picking up on the Cleveland lakefront with an influx today of Red-breasted Mergansers and gull numbers peaking towards 10,000. The key active sites remain East 55th marina, Burke Lakefront Airport, Wendy Park, and Edgewater. Waterfowl numbers are still drastically down. After hunting season ends in a few days we'll post more regular waterfowl numbers. The juvenile POMARINE JAEGER that's been frequenting the CLE harbor just offshore Wendy Park was yet again see today on at least 5 occasions, but mostly well offshore (scope views beyond the outer breakwall). Scope and patience required. A HOARY REDPOLL originally found yesterday by Chuck Slusarczyk Jr remained loyal to the extreme NW corner of the old coast guard station at Wendy Park, feeding on the ground right along the metal breaker wall, and occasionally flying "inland" to forage at Wendy Park's fields, then back again to the coast guard station. Patience needed but looks are point-blank if you use very very simple methods of standing still and not pressing the bird. This individual is lone and not flocking with other species. At least one if not two SNOWY OWLS continue at Burke Lakefront Airport. One SNOW was viewed well from the East 9th street pier looking west to Burke, today. Because gull numbers are only just starting to increase, rarities are few and far between. "White-winged" gulls remain almost wholesomely absent. 





JB

CLE, OH

www.jenbrumfield.com



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