Hi Everyone, Beth and I spent a couple of hours in Forest Hill Park‹in Cleveland Hts and east Cleveland‹this morning. It was a beautiful Cleveland autumn day, but with intermittent high winds. The park was filled with both species of kinglets. In the end, I have to acknowledge that while the kinglets in our yard may like the native plants we¹ve put in, for a week this town has been just dripping both kinglets wherever there are trees or shrubs. The park was filled with them; we heard them everywhere and had many good looks at both. The oddest thing was that we found a Golden-crowned that had apparently gotten caught by some burrs on an unidentified plant‹the feathers on the under parts were all tangled up with a few burrs‹and died (starved?). Here¹s what we had in the park, in no order: Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Dark-eyed Junco ‹ 20 or more Song Sparrow‹lots of them; probably more than a dozen in three or four groups Hermit Thrush‹3 or 4 Blue Jay‹several heard, 2 seen Downy Woodpecker‹2 Red-bellied Woodpecker‹1 female, that we watched as she arrived at a tree with a nut in her mouth, went right to a little hole (apparently a spot she knew), propped the nut in there and worked it until she could eat it. Pileated Woodpecker‹1 Eastern Phoebe‹3 American Robin‹1 Rock Pigeon‹1 (!) Great Blue Heron‹1 Canada Goose‹50-60 Mallard‹1 (with the geese) Brown Creeper‹1 In response to Kevin Metcalf¹s note about swifts in North Chagrin, later in the afternoon we had about half a dozen over our house. Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cleveland Hts ----- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] 216-932-2753 www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]