Sponsored by the Kirtland Bird Club and conducted on Cleveland's east side and eastern suburbs into Lake and Geauga Counties, it covers a circle of 15 miles in diameter centered 0.5 miles west of the junction of Rtes 6 and 175.
34 participants; 53.75 party hours
weather: light snow cover; AM cloudy, light snow; PM cloudy , light
snow; streams and Lake Erie open, ponds partly open; 25º to 30º F.
List of Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
December 19,
2009
Species Name Count Comment
Canada Goose 2050
Gadwall 9
American Black Duck 38
Mallard 660
Northern Shoveler 1
Redhead 4
Ring-necked Duck 2
Lesser Scaup 1
Surf Scoter 1
White-winged Scoter 1
Bufflehead 10
Common Goldeneye 70
Hooded Merganser 2
Common Merganser 10
Red-breasted Merganser 6500
Wild Turkey 20 New high count
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 6
Bald Eagle 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 8
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 16
Merlin 2
American Coot 13
Wilson's Snipe 3
Bonaparte's Gull 1200
Ring-billed Gull 1842
Herring Gull 102
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Rock Pigeon 185
Mourning Dove 147
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Barred Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 6
Red-headed Woodpecker 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 82
Downy Woodpecker 80
Hairy Woodpecker 16
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 12
Blue Jay 317
American Crow 169
Black-capped Chickadee 336
Tufted Titmouse 187
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 97
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 19
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 62
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 846
Northern Mockingbird 8
European Starling 1935
Cedar Waxwing 63
Yellow-rumped Warbler 21
Eastern Towhee 3
American Tree Sparrow 43
Song Sparrow 35
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 106
Dark-eyed Junco 236
Northern Cardinal 257
Red-winged Blackbird 30
House Finch 136
American Goldfinch 247
House Sparrow 519
Total Species for 2009 CBC: 68
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Created: Feb. 2, 2010