If you have ever wondered why they are called Double-crested Cormorants,  now
is the time to head to the Lake Erie shoreline.  Many of the rafting or
loafing cormorants I saw yesterday were displaying their small "crests."
Although apparently other cormorants find this attractive, to me it made them  appear
as if they were having a bad hair day.  Yesterday, many of them  were easily
viewable from the parking lot of Nagoya Restaurant, on the  corner of Rt 53
and Rt 163, two stoplights north of the Rt 2 / Rt 53N Pt Clinton  exit.  An
adult bald eagle was searching the area, and offered some great  viewing.  (Note:
If, like the cormorants, you enjoy eating raw fish,  this place has great
sushi.  They have an outdoor patio so you can bird as  you dine.  Too bad they
are closed for lunch during the off season.)

A few miles to the east, Rt 269 ends at a small parking lot that is part of
East Harbor State Park.  From there, you can walk along the channel that
leads from West Harbor to Lake Erie.   Yesterday, on the far side of  that channel
I watched a tern feeding.  I believe it was a Forster's  Tern.  (Sunday
eveining just before dusk, a Caspian Tern crossed my path as  I was driving across
the Edison Bridge.)  Fox Sparrows were singing in the  small woods closer to
the beach.  At the beginning of my  walk, Hairy Woodpecker was in the trees
along the water's edge.   A second hairy may have been there as well.  I was
unable to find the birds  again before I left.

All these sites are within DeLorme 28 D3.

A note on the Trumpeter Swan that has been in the flooded field west of the
main impoundment of Medusa Marsh.  The bird was present on Monday, and I  was
scoping it to read the number on its green neck collar when a worker's truck
coming up the dike spooked it.  I did not see it yesterday.  Keep in  mind
that this area is private property and trespassing is not allowed.

Sheryl Young
Sandusky





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