Sponsored by the Kirtland Bird Club and conducted on Cleveland's east side, 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.
50 participants; 91.5 party hours
weather: light snow cover; AM cloudy, light snow; PM cloudy to
clearing, light snow; streams and Lake Erie open, ponds partly open;
23º to 25º F.
List of Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
December 20,
2008
Species
Name
Count
Comment
Cackling Goose
2 New species for this
count
Canada Goose
703
Mute Swan
2
Gadwall
4
American Black Duck
12
Mallard
241
Northern
Pintail
4
Greater Scaup
35
Lesser Scaup
5
Surf Scoter
8
White-winged Scoter
1
Black Scoter
9
Long-tailed Duck
3
Bufflehead
14
Common Goldeneye
79
Hooded Merganser
8
Common Merganser
50
Red-breasted
Merganser
10000
Ruddy Duck
2
Wild Turkey
14
Double-crested
Cormorant
40
Great Blue Heron
16
Black-crowned Night-Heron
3
Osprey
1 New species for this count
Bald Eagle
2
Northern Harrier
2
Sharp-shinned Hawk
1
Cooper's Hawk
6
Red-shouldered Hawk
5
Red-tailed
Hawk
25
Merlin
2
American
Coot
8
Wilson's Snipe
3
Black-headed Gull
1
Bonaparte's Gull
13000
Ring-billed Gull
5078
Herring Gull
3510
Thayer's Gull
1
Iceland Gull
2
Lesser
Black-backed Gull
2
Glaucous Gull
2
Great Black-backed Gull
80
Rock
Pigeon
580
Mourning Dove
215
Northern Saw-whet Owl
1
Belted Kingfisher
8
Red-bellied Woodpecker
75
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1
Downy Woodpecker
116
Hairy Woodpecker
24
Northern Flicker
6
Pileated Woodpecker
17
Blue Jay
344
American Crow
199
Black-capped Chickadee
373
Tufted Titmouse
104
Red-breasted Nuthatch
15
White-breasted Nuthatch
123
Brown Creeper
1
Carolina Wren
21
Eastern
Bluebird
39
American
Robin
557
Northern Mockingbird
9
European
Starling
975
Cedar Waxwing
23
Yellow-rumped Warbler
5
Eastern Towhee
4
American Tree Sparrow
164
Song Sparrow
30
Swamp Sparrow
1
White-throated Sparrow
61
Dark-eyed Junco
428
Snow Bunting
1
Northern Cardinal
255
Common Grackle
1
House Finch
212
White-winged
Crossbill
7
Pine Siskin
54
American Goldfinch
285
House Sparrow
525
Total Species for 2008 CBC: 80
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Created: Nov. 20, 2009