Baltimore Oriole
Lake County
4/30/12

Male Purple Finch
Lake County
4/13/12

Turkey
Lake County
3/26/12

Screech Owl
Euclid, Ohio
Feb. 10, 2012

Yellow billed Cuckoo
 Meadowbrook Marsh near Lakeside/Marblehead
September 17, 2011

Blackpoll Warbler
Meadowbrook Marsh near Lakeside/Marblehead
September 17, 2011

Saw-whet Owl
Headland Beach
April 17, 2011

Saw-whet owl picture taken by Roger Beuck on Spring Bird Walk at Headland Beach

Roger Beuck photographed a Merlin (top) and an immature Bald Eagle (bottom) on the IBA Walk at Beaty's Landing

Tom Frankel photographed this Le Conte's Sparrow at Wake Robin Trail on October 24th, 2010

This is one of four Snow Buntings down at Headlands this afternoon between 1-2PM,  11/29/10.  Sally Isacco

Brant, Eastern Screech Owl and Red Phalarope seen October 15, 2010 at Conneaut and Wake Robin by Sally Isacco.

Jim Connor photographed this Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at Mentor Beach Park on 7/23/10. Scissor-tailed Flycatchers are a western bird that usually comes no further east than Missouri. Jim believes this is a first for Lake County Ohio. His research revealed there is only one record in A Field Book of Birds of the Cleveland Region (3rd Edition) and Peterjohn says there are 10 records for the entire state as of 2001.  The most recent sighting was on May 11 ,2008 according to the Ohio Birds Records but it doesn't say where it was seen but Jim assumes this was the same sighting.

Carol Skinner photographed this Cliff Swallow just off Kile road in Geauga County Ohio in July.  She and Bill Cotton noticed up to 4 adults flying in and around the area of the nest.

A few warbler shots taken at Headlands on May 14th,2010 by  Sally Isacco. In order shown below: Black Billed Cuckoo, Blackburian Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Palm Warbler

Jim Connors photographed this Purple Gallinule that was reported at Columbia Reservation in Lorain County. This is a rare occurance in Ohio.

"Our Eagles" at the nest off of State Route 44 in the Mentor Marsh taken from SR 44 by Bob Bartok

Roger Beuck found this male Hooded Merganser X Common Goldeneye hybrid on the East 72nd street field trip February 21, 2010 in Cleveland.

Found this cute little fellow at Chagrin River Park today.  My first one this winter.  Sally Isacco

I was out at Chagrin River Park and this immature Cooper's Hawk flew in to say hello!  The Rusty Blackbird was there last week on Thursday,  January 21st.    Sally Isacco

Roger Beuck photographed this Pileated Woodpecker during the Christmas Bird Count with Jim McConner at Mentor Lagoons on Dec. 20, 2009.

Roger Beuck snapped this picture of a Red-tailed Hawk on Booth Rd. In Kirtland Hills on Nov. 8, 2009.

Photos by Sally Iascco

photo by Gary Ault

This unusual  Leucistic Tufted Titmouse (above) has been hanging out at my feeder for the better part of a month says Mrs. Jennifer Ault.  It was first spotted in August and has returned 3 times in the last month with a larger group of tufted titmice. Mr. Gary Ault waited patiently to snap this photo

Sally Isacco snapped this photo of a Lark Sparrow at Headlands Park in Mentor, Ohio on September 4th, 2009.

Roger Beuck photographed the above Red-Spotted Butterfly during our IBA walk at Strong Acres on Sunday, July 26.

Below are photos of a Brown Pelican seen on 7/2/09 at Fairport Harbor, Ohio at the mouth of the Grand river. Blackbrook members Jim McConnor, Anders & Joyce Fjeldstad,and Helen Baber witnessed this extremely rare event. It was gone by the next day but was the first recorded sighting at Headlands Beach State Park area. There have only been a small handful of Brown Pelican sightings throughout the Ohio.

On May 10th, 2009 Roger Beuck snapped a picture of this perching Green Heron at Chagrin River Park.

Roger Beuck photographed these two pictures of a Prothonotary Warbler at Veteran's Park during the I.B.A. walk on April 26, 2009.

Sally Isacco, Chardon Ohio, snapped some great photos in her back yard April 21, 2009 of a White-Throated Sparrow, Pine Warbler, Female and Male Purple Finches and a Rufous-Sided Towhee.

White-Throated Sparrow

Pine Warbler

Purple Finch - Female

Purple Finch - Male

Rufous-Sided Towhee

Barbara Savage March 15, 2009 - We're HOOTING  and whooping for joy as after last year's screech owl drought in our yard, this little rufus has turned up (as of this morning.)  We are keeping our fingers crossed that he/she will make this permanent.

On a hike with her great nephew, Sally Isacco observed the three woodpeckers (Hairy, Downy and Pileated) above at North Chagrin Reservation on February 15th.

This White-Winged Crossbill is one of about six individuals at the Nature Realm today 1-22-09.  They prefer the Douglas Firs right across from the visitor center which is closed due to construction.    Sally Isacco, Chardon

Bob Bartok snapped the above photos at North Chagrin Reservation in Willoughby Ohio on 12/29/08.

Sally Isacco photographed this Pine Siskin that has been at her feeders in Chardon, Ohio for about the last 3 weeks. 

Roger Beuck photographed this peregrine falcon at the East Lake Power plant on November 29, 2008.

Photo by Roger Beuck

The following butterfly pictures were taken by Keith Wagner on September 7, 2008 at Dike 14, Cleveland Ohio.

Viceroy

Buckeye

Viceroy, two Pearl Crescents and a Summer Azure

Sally Isacco found this male turkey in her yard on September 16, 2008. 

Mary Ann Wagner photographed this Tiger Swallowtail in her Mentor Ohio backyard in August 2008.

Photo by Roger Beuck

Roger Beuck found this Pair of Bobolinks on July 5, 2008 at Chagrin River Park.

Photo by Roger Beuck

Roger photographed on May 9,2008 this Snowy Egret (left) and Great Egret (right) at Veterans Park, Mentor Ohio.

Photo by Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco photographed this Purple Finch May 1, 2008 in her backyard in Chardon, Ohio.

Photos by Roger Beuck

Horned Owl with 1 chick from Chagrin River Park taked April 15, 17, 2008 by Roger Beuck.  Roger also photographed this egret on April 15th.

Photo by Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco photographed this short-eared owl in flight on March 1, 2008 near Middlefield Ohio.  She also photographed several Pine Siskins at Big Creek Park in Chardon, Ohio (Below).

Photos by Sally Isacco

Photo by Roger Beuck

Roger photographed the above Red-Bellied Woodpecker recently.

Photo by Roger Beuck

Roger Beuck photographed this Barred Owl at Chagrin River Park on Dec. 30, 2007.

Photos by Jim McConnor

Jim found these 2 Common Redpolls at his feeder on Dec 13th. Jim noted that these are the species which are being reported all along the Lake Erie area coming from the boreal forest due to poor cone and nut production in Canada. He says this is the same reason we have had Evening Grosbeaks and so many Red-breasted Nuthatches all fall.

These photos were taken on Thanksgiving weekend in Saybrook Ohio by some friends who have watched the fledgling and it's parents over the past year.   Paul Huling

Photo by Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco photographed this Evening Grosbeak in her backyard on November 10th, 2007

Photo by Sally Isacco

This Saw-whet Owl, Phil Chaon found today at Headlands Beach State Park along the fisherman's trail about 3:30PM in the afternoon on November 2nd. 

Mary Ann Wagner's husband snapped this Oriole at their feeder on July 7th in Mentor, Ohio.

Photos by Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco spotted these Sandhill Cranes on Rapids Road near the Eldon Russell Park in Burton, Ohio.

Photos by Paul Carpenter

Paul Carpenter took these pictures of Sandhill Cranes  on 06/27/07 in Geauga County on route 322 east of route 44.

photo by Jim McConnor

Jim McConnor photographed this Yellow-billed Cuckoo on June 15 at Chagrin River Park.  He believes it's probably a nesting bird to be hanging around this time of the month. It was on the south side (over the bridge) on the left path almost to the parking lot.

Barbara Savage has a nesting pair of screech owls in her yard.......

"We finally discovered Mr. Screech in a tree when he was cooing to Madame while she had her head out of the box.  Today, while his parents were roosting in nearby trees, this fledgling popped up - well, you can sort of see his fuzzy head near the bottom of the hole if you look closely.  "

Barbara also found this bluebird...

"Finally, there is a photo of a bluebird on a motorbike who seems to be saying, "Got ZOOM?""

Photos by Barbara Savage

During our Audubon walk with Haans Petruschke (4-15-2007), two Sandhill Cranes were spotted at Holden Arboretum's overflow parking lot.

Photos by Tom & Troy Frankel.

Photo by Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco spotted this Fox Sparrow in her backyard where she notice a high count of 7 from 4-6-07 and 4-7-07. 

photo by Jim McConnor

Jim McConnor snapped this photo of a Cattle Egret that Jerry Talkington found at Tamarac Apt. Complex on Tamarac Rd off of Lost Nation Rd in Willoughby (11/20). Its a rare find for Lake County Ohio so take a trip down Lost Nation Road and see if you can observe this Cattle Egret.

DIRECTIONS: Tamarac Drive is off Lost Nation Road just across from the main buildings of the Lost Nation Airport; from SR 2, get off at Lost Nation Road and drive north; in about a mile or so you'll see the airport on the right and on the left a LARGE BROWN SIGN saying "Tamarac Apartments"; turn left (west) at this sign and drive about 1/4 mile or so west (driving through a large number of condo/apartment complexes) until you see the large weedy field on the right;

Photos by Jim McConnor

Anders Fjeldstad, Ray Hannikman, Jim McConnor, Larry Rosche, and Beulah Shanks saw this ROSS'S GOOSE in Fairport, Ohio on November 8th, 2006. 

Sally Isacco photographed this humming bird on a nest at the Chardon Ohio Community Center this July.

  Photo by Jim McConnor

During the Blackbrook Audubon IBA birdwalk at Chagrin River Park in Willoughby YESTERDAY (google up "Lake Metroparks" for directions), we found a DICKCISSEL underneath the high voltage power line corridor; we saw it about 10 am on Sunday, June 11th.

At noon I was back again with my wife Joyce (who hadn't been on the walk); we found it again and then went out for a fast food lunch and returned to the park; around 1 pm, Jerry Talkington showed up and I walked with him up the "Horse Loop Trail" and we found it singing and then saw it, sitting on a Teasel, about 10 or so feet away!

Today, Monday June 12th, I went back to the park and saw and heard it again at 9:30am; he's in the Northwest area of the park; instead of entering the park at the Reeves Road entrance (which is just a few feet up Lost Nation Road exit of SR 2 in Willoughby), drive instead another 3/4 mile northwest on Reeves Road to Rural Road and enter the park here (there's a sign here!); drive back and park under the power towers and walk a hundred feet or so on the "Horse Loop Trail"; it curves around and starts to go up the hill; when you see the #12 Vent Pipe (there are a number of white plastic pipe coming out of the ground here since this is an old landfill) you should hear him sing his "dick-ciss-ciss" song and see him sitting on last year's Teasel or this year's Yellow Clover; - Anders Fjeldstad

Click HERE to hear the Dickcissel's Song.

This is a female Red-necked Phalarope in breeding plumage seen for two days at the Headlands Beach State Park on 5/14-5/15 by Jim McConnor. It is a fairly rare sighting in the spring as most are seen in Northern Ohio during fall migration in basic plumage meaning gray, black and white. The red neck is only seen in the spring during breeding. The female's plumage is brighter than the male.

Amazingly two Kirtland's Warblers were seen at Headlands Beach State Park on the 10th of May, 2006.  At least seven members including John Pogacnik and Jim McConnor of the club were able to veiw the spectacle. This is the first (maybe 2nd time depending on who you ask ) that a Kirtland's has been seen at the Headlands and never two at once. 

Another Kirtland's Warbler (young female) was found by Anders Fjeldstad,  John and Ann Edwards and subsequently seen by Deborah Kibble, Tom and Alice Faren, Jim McConnor, Ted Gilliand  and Paula Lozano on May 22nd, 2006 at Headlands.

Caly Park, Jan 22, 2006

Sally Isacco

Sally sighted this Long Eared Owl near Wellington, Ohio in Caly Park.

To find Caly Park, Go west on I-90 towards Oberlin College (or for scenic take SR 6) to SR 58 south, then East on SR 303 to an area known as La Grange then right on West Rd. 

Mentor Lagoons, Nov 11, 2005

Sally Isacco

Sally Isacco, Jim McConnor, and Paul Kiplinger sighted this White-Eyed Vireo at the Mentor Lagoons.

Headlands State Beach Park, Oct 19,2005

Sally Isacco

   Headlands State Beach Park Oct 25,2004

 Sally Isacco and Jim McConnor made a sighting of this Red Phalarope. 

Columbia Reservation In Lorain County

This Glossy Ibis was seen by Anders Fjeldstad and Jim McConnor on Nov 19,2004.

Jim McConnor took this picture of a Juvenile Cooper's Hawk 

The picture was taken in my back yard in Mentor on the Lake Jan 20th. It was chasing House Sparrows that had all flown into a yew that is in front of my shed. It actually flew into the center of the yew and all the sparrows flew out and away but he then flew to the top of the fence and watched to see if anymore sparrows appeared which they did not. I got a chuckle out of watching this little comedy unfold. I say comedy because no little birds got eaten. He was there for about 15 minutes just looking. a good caption might be "Where's the beef?".

Mature Bald Eagle sighted by Jim McConnor at Veterans Park on March 9th 2005.

Drake Hooded Mergansers and Drake Ring-Neck Duck sighted by Jim McConnor at Mentor Lagoons on March 9th 2005.

On this next picture, Jim said "see how many types of waterfowl are in the picture. The hint is 5,can you name them?

Sighted by Jim McConnor at Veterans Park on March 9th 2005.