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Thu, 31 May 2007 23:50:14 -0400
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Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area, Lucas Co., n.w. Ohio, continues to be a good
spot for shorebirds and other waterbirds.  Most of the main unit has been
drawn down (and I understand it won't be refilled until mid-August), but
south of the dike that separates the marsh from Lake Erie there remains a
large body of shallow water with extensive mudflats along the far edge; this
is best viewed by walking out the dike that runs southeast from the parking
lot, and looking across with a telescope.  I was there at midday today
(Thursday 5/31) and failed to see the Laughing Gull or White-faced Ibis that
were there two days earlier, but I did see a Stilt Sandpiper in almost full
breeding plumage, a rare bird for spring and the second one at Metzger this
year.  Also there among the shorebirds were five Black-bellied Plovers, 25
Ruddy Turnstones, and two White-rumped Sandpipers.  The resting flock of
gulls and terns at midday today included two one-year-old Bonaparte's Gulls,
the first I'd seen locally in more than three weeks, as well as several
subadult Forster's Terns.  A single unidentified dark ibis flew over, and
later a single Glossy Ibis came in and was foraging along the edge of the
flats.  There have been a few Glossy Ibises around the area continuously
since late April, but for a while I was missing them repeatedly, and they
showed up at Metzger only when I wasn't there.  Hugh Rose and Judy Kolo-Rose
had a standing joke that I was an ibis jinx, and that the best way for
birders to see ibises was to go someplace where I wasn't going!  But I guess
the jinx has been broken.  At any rate, birders who are coming to n.w. Ohio
for the tail end of the spring migration should consider bringing a scope
and stopping at Metzger.

Kenn Kaufman
Rocky Ridge, Ohio

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