Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society
Field Trip to Lorain Harbor and Black River
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Leader: Rich Kassouf

A windy sunny Saturday morning made travel easy. The Avon Lake Power Plant did not attract very many birds. Lake Erie is open this year. At Lorain Harbor Ring-billed Gulls shared space with a sprinkling of Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls. There were only a few ducks. A flock of 800 or more Red-breasted Mergansers flew past. After a survey of the gulls, we moved to the Black River, where four Black-crowned Night Herons perched by the shore. A raft of Canvasbacks moved upriver along with Scaup and Common Mergansers.

BIRD LIST
19 species

Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Canvasback
Redhead
Scaup sp.
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Double-crested Cormorant
Black-crowned Night Heron
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
American Crow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle