Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, Ohio, US
Apr 13, 2018 8:40 AM - 2:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.2 mile(s)
Comments:     Began stationary at the observation tower at Clark Road and after 9:45 moved over to Lane Road and walked the trails there. Despite the northeast winds, there was a significant movement of birds along throughout the area. Migration was fairly heavy until 10:00 and birds continued moving until about 12:30. Northern flickers moved non-stop throughout the first four hours, over 700 were counted.
89 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  24
Wood Duck  17
Blue-winged Teal  9
Gadwall  1
Mallard  14
American Black Duck  1
Ring-necked Duck  1
Greater Scaup  2
Lesser Scaup  14
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  2
Common Merganser  6
Red-breasted Merganser  147
Ruddy Duck  17
Red-throated Loon  1     One was observed flying east low over the water. The thin profile, drooping neck in flight, small foot projection, pale gray coloration, and steady downbeat of the wings were all observed,
Common Loon  8
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  2180     Numerous large flocks were observed flying east over Lake Erie
Great Blue Heron  7
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  41
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  8
Sharp-shinned Hawk  13
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  6
Rough-legged Hawk  1
Sora  1     Feeding in small Phragmites lined wetland in the woods
American Coot  2
Killdeer  3
Wilson's Snipe  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Bonaparte's Gull  24
Ring-billed Gull  322
Herring Gull  42
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Caspian Tern  47
Mourning Dove  131
Belted Kingfisher  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  9
Downy Woodpecker  4
Northern Flicker  733     Massive migration heading mostly west. It was rare to look and not see flickers in the air
Pileated Woodpecker  1
American Kestrel  16
Merlin  1
Eastern Phoebe  14
Blue Jay  32
American Crow  19
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  142
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  9
Tufted Titmouse  1
Brown Creeper  17
Winter Wren  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  26
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3
Eastern Bluebird  5
Hermit Thrush  11
American Robin  261
Brown Thrasher  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  112
American Pipit  5
Cedar Waxwing  18
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  44
American Tree Sparrow  2
Chipping Sparrow  4
Field Sparrow  3
Fox Sparrow  14
Dark-eyed Junco  5
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  118
Swamp Sparrow  5
Eastern Towhee  12
Northern Cardinal  27
Eastern Meadowlark  4
Red-winged Blackbird  230
Brown-headed Cowbird  450
Rusty Blackbird  109
Common Grackle  71
blackbird sp.  500
Purple Finch  4
American Goldfinch  16


John Pogacnik

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