The day started out at 9 degrees and soared all the way up to 23 before we called it a day. Before we even met up with the group a great horned owl was perched near the railroad tracks and a roost of 30 wild turkeys was found along the drive to Avon.
Avon power plant held a lot of waterfowl including my first of the year northern pintail. From Avon we headed over to Huntington Reservation. Glaucous gull was the second year bird of the day which we had great looks at. A stop at the visitors center gave us excellent views of a pair of barred owls in the woods being harassed by a mob of jays. We watched the owls until they dove down into the revine and headed to Wendy park and eventually to 72nd street.
Lots of time was spent at Wendy park trying to figure out if we had a snowy owl on the break wall or just a piece of ice. We left it as undetermined....
At 72nd street the gull numbers seemed down but we did have more good looks at glaucous gulls and I finally got satisfying looks at peregrine falcon to add it to my January list. Peregrine was bird number three for the day.
From there we headed over to Cleveland Lakefront State Park and found our northern saw whet owl in the pines. All in all it was a great day on the lakefront. We celebrated with food and drinks in Bay Village and then refound the same great horned owl where we had seen it in the morning.
January total to date: 93 birds
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