Yesterday I got a chance to bird on Middle Bass Island. There were 30 ring necked ducks, 6 wood ducks,  2 coots, a blue-winged teal, and a horned grebe at the Kuehnle State Wildlife Area with lots of red-breasted mergansers, common goldeneyes, bufflehead, and horned grebes just offshore. Bonapartes gulls and kingfishers both there and at the MB State Park marina. A walk at the MBI East Point Preserve produced a hermit thrush. Turkey vultures, red-winged blackbirds and tree swallows everywhere on islands.

Saw my First purple martin and barn swallow of year at the Scheeff East Point Preserve on Saturday putting up gourds with Paula Ziebarth. Also saw my first green darner dragonfly of the year on South Bass Island (my favorite sign of spring!) that day while in the vineyard. A big day for migrating raptors that day too with turkey vultures, red-winged hawks, cooper's hawks, bald eagles, and a northern harrier.

Lisa Brohlf

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