Birding was absolutely fantastic at Cleveland lakefront nature preserve this afternoon, from the gate to the tall grass field in the center of the preserve. Complete checklist: 

Canada Goose  8
Mallard  4
Double-crested Cormorant  11
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Ring-billed Gull  37
Herring Gull  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  16
Chimney Swift  200
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  17
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue-headed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  4
Black-capped Chickadee  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  5
Winter Wren  1
Sedge Wren  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  18
Gray-cheeked Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  3
Hermit Thrush  7
American Robin  37
Gray Catbird  11
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  120
American Pipit  1
Cedar Waxwing  18
Orange-crowned Warbler  2
Nashville Warbler  4
Common Yellowthroat  30
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  3
Black-throated Blue Warbler  2
Palm Warbler  13
Yellow-rumped Warbler  38
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  25
Chipping Sparrow  10
Dark-eyed Junco  45
White-crowned Sparrow  60
White-throated Sparrow  220
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  90
Lincoln's Sparrow  13
Swamp Sparrow  34
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  5
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  9
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  12
House Sparrow  8

Jen Brumfield
Cleveland, Ohio 
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