Today I woke up early on my day off from work and drown the 2.5 hours to Oak Openings with my grandmother. Hoping to meet up with the Kirtland Bird Club that had left Cleveland much earlier this morning, unfortunately we never found them, but instead found a bird group from Detroit, Michigan.
The first birds seen were a pair of Brown-headed Cowbirds, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Bluebirds and an Indigo Bunting. After catching up with the Michigan group the pointed the direction of a Red-headed Woodpecker and where they were seeing the Lark Sparrows a lifer for me. While watching the Lark Sparrows and Chipping Sparrows defending territories, one of the birders spotted a Grasshopper Sparrow on a reed in the field. They put the Grasshopper Sparrow into their field scope giving everybody great looks.
Further down the trail we spotted our first Mourning Dove and one Turkey Vulture, then came the call that one of the birders had found the Summer Tanager a lifer for me. The bird was far off from where we were located but I was able to see the bird and then watched it fly away.
Other notable species seen were Wood Thrush, Ovenbird, Brown Thrasher, Wild Turkeys, Cedar Waxwings nesting, and Baltimore Oriole.
Along the trail one of the birders was able to identify the butterflies as we went along, these included; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail, Viceroy and Silver-Spotted Skipper.
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