Brooklyn Oxbow Fieldtrip
June 12, 2011

Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society

Field trip to Brooklyn Oxbow

Sunday, June 12, 2011 7:30 a.m.

Leader: Mary Anne and Tom Romito

Brooklyn Oxbow is a hidden wild area in the heart of suburban Brooklyn, Ohio.  Formerly part of a loop of Big Creek, the landscape was altered by the construction of I-71.  There are shale cliffs and forest carped by sassafras.  It is owned by the City of Brooklyn, and has been adopted by a Boy Scout troop.   WCAS visited on a cloudy, damp, cool morning.

Bird List

Mallard

Turkey Vulture

Red-tailed Hawk

Spotted Sandpiper

Rock Pigeon

Chimney Swift

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Eastern Wood Pewee (on nest)

Blue Jay

American Crow

Black-capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

House Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Song Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Baltimore Oriole

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

Also Elderberries, Oaks, Sassafras in profusion, Toad, Bullfrog