Wow, a great diversity of birds are in our state now. Since the listserv will be pretty busy for the next few weeks, I'll try to just post the best of the highlights in the near future. Yesterday 4/24 I had: purple finch and pine siskin in E Mahoning Co., and ospreys, bald eagle, and nesting cliff swallows at the Stark Co. portion of Berlin Res. Today, from west to east, starting in Lucas Co.: pine warbler, orchard oriole, and Baltimore oriole at Metzger; both yellowlegs but little else at Veler Rd. (ONWR); no sign of upland sandpiper along Krause/Stange Rd. area; 4 Am. golden-plovers, both yellowlegs, pectoral sandpiper, 150 dunlin, W. snipe, and golden-winged warbler at Benton-Carroll Rd. part of ONWR; Magee birds included common and Forster's terns, male "Brewster's" warbler, pine warbler, worm-eating warbler, n. waterthrush, hooded warbler, scarlet tanager, and white-crowned sparrows; Medusa Marsh (Erie Co.) had high water levels, ducks
included 25 gadwalls; 300+ double-crested cormorants and 30 great egrets were at the Turning Point Island nesting colony in Sandusky; a singing prairie warbler was along the entrance road to the Cedar Pt. chaussee; and finally, at Lorain harbor/impoundment were red-breasted merganser, 6 lesser yellowlegs, 12 dunlin, 25 Caspian terns, Forster's terns, 2 gray catbirds, savannah sparrows, and vesper sparrow. Life is good.....Craig
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