Took the occasion today to bring in our prothonotary warbler and tree swallow bird houses off the Upper Cuyahoga River within and in the vicinity of Geauga Park District’s Eldon Russell Park.  

Between pulling up poles and loading the canoe with PVC pipes and nest jars, Rachel McKinney logged a pretty good list on eBird.  Highlights included:  rusty blackbirds, sandhill cranes, a N. parula, a black-throated green warbler, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a solitary (truly) sandpiper, a swamp sparrow with many robins and redwings.  An inordinate number of woodpeckers including downy, hairy, red-bellied and N. flicker were present as well as many yellow-rumped warblers, the attraction seemed to be fruit, especially poison ivy berries.

However, the greatest sighting of the outing went to the furred, not the feathered: a troop of four river otters a little way up Bridge Creek, a major tributary forming the southern boundary of the park.  

Dan Best

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