Barn Swallows
Barn Swallow’s build nests in the rafters of barns as well as under bridges, porches and picnic pavilions.
Author: Sharon Swaney
Blue Herons
In larger wetlands you may find Little Blue Heron’s feeding their all-white babies.
Mallards
Mallards are familiar to everyone and Mother Nature produces lots of them every spring.
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Juncos only nest in a few NE Ohio counties and often use manmade structures like wreaths hung on doors or between bales of hay in a barn.
Red-winged Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbirds pull cattails together to hide their nest.
Eastern Kingbirds
Eastern Kingbirds are very large flycatchers that like to nest near water.
2025 Bird Walks
Each spring for many years on the last three Sundays in April and the first three Sundays in May at 7:30 A.M. (unless noted otherwise in the Schedule) the Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Metroparks,...
Golden-crowned Kinglet
The smallest of our winter birds at just 0.2oz (you could mail 5 of them for one stamp!). Can survive down to -40F by lowering its body temperature at night.
Brown Creeper
At 0.3oz, it searches for nutritious insects hiding under the bark of tree trunks.
Winter Wren
Was that a mouse scampering through the dense cover of the forest? Winter Wrens move quickly in search of insects and sometimes fruit. Just 0.3oz!
