ML25417951

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

1st state record, and 1st record for Great Lakes other than Lake Ontario; life bird; The entire time I watched it it was perched on the break wall (about 1/3 of a mile away) at the river mouth (41.505082, -81.718222), except one time that it took flight flying along the break wall to the east doing a few circles before returning to the river mouth break wall where it remained when I left. It was still being seen at 5pm at this location. Found by Todd Eiben late in the day on 3/4 in the Cuyahoga River with a group of cormorants, about a 2 mile straight flight from the river mouth (41.4820551,-81.6761532). It was briefly seen the next morning at 7:30am by Dan Gesualdo leaving a cormorant roost on the river, which is about a 2 mile flight from where it was originally found. Despite much searching it was not refound until later in the day again by Dan G., on the break wall at the mouth of the river at Wendy Park (about 4 miles flight from the roost) at 1:30pm. It then was seen moving back and forth between this location and a mile to the East by/ on the break wall. Finally it was last seen leaving the river mouth flying south/ upstream at 4:40pm (about an hour and a half before sunset though conditions were snowy and dark). It was seen the next morning (3/6) returning to the river mouth break wall at Wendy Park at 7:30am (about an hour after sunrise), less than 10 other Corms were present at the time.

Technical information

Model

Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

ISO

200

Focal length

215 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/6.5

Shutter speed

1/160 sec

Dimensions

634 pixels x 444 pixels

Original file size

93.04 KB