Causeway birds at Magee

1.      Pied-billed Grebe
2.      Great Blue Herons
3.      Great Egrets
4.      Snowy Egrets
5.      Green Heron
6.      Black-crowned Night Herons
7.      Northern Harrier
8.      Killdeer
9.      Greater Yellowlegs
10.     Common Terns





Warblers at the boardwalk

1.      Blue-winged and Golden-winged
2.      Tennessee and Nashville
3.      Orange-crowned and Yellow
4.      Northern Parula and Chestnut-sided
5.      Magnolia and Cape May
6.      Black-throated Blue and Black-throated Green
7.      Yellow-rumped and Blackburnian
8.      Palm and Bay-breasted
9.      Cerulean and Black & White
10.     American Redstart and Prothonotary
11.     Worm-eating and Ovenbird
12.     N. Waterthrush and Kentucky
13.     Mourning and C. Yellowthroat
14.     Hooded and Wilson's
15.     Canada and Yellow-breasted Chat





Other boardwalk birds at Magee

1.      LEAST BITTERN - heard by many people
2.      SORA - 2 very active near the east end of the boardwalk. Last week
they were eating snails by the dozens.
3.      Common Terns - flyovers
4.      Mourning Doves - several seen
5.      Black-billed & Yellow-billed Cuckoo
6.      Great-horned Owls
7.      Chimney Swifts - flying overhead
8.      Downy and Red-bellied Woodpecker
9.      Northern Flickers
10.     Least and Great-crested Flycatchers
11.     Eastern Kingbird
12.     White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, Warbling, Philadelphia,
and Red-eyed Vireo's
13.     Blue jays - migrating in flocks overhead
14.     Tree and Barn Swallows
15.     House Wrens - in good numbers now
16.     Ruby-crowned Kinglets - mostly females now
17.     American Robin, Veery, Swainson's, and Wood Thrush
18.     Gray Catbirds - in large numbers now
19.     Scarlet Tanager - a beautiful male seen today
20.     Song, Lincoln's, Swamp, and White-throated Sparrows
21.     N. Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and one Indigo Bunting (male)
22.     Red-winged Blackbirds, C. Grackles, and both Orioles
23.     Pine Siskins - 2 late birds seen on the boardwalk.





Hawk Watch - Last day of the research - by Dan and Barb Myers - at the Magee
Observation Tower near the bird center

1.      Turkey Vultures - 24
2.      Osprey - 2
3.      Bald Eagles
4.      Northern Harrier -1
5.      Sharp-shinned Hawks - 3
6.      Broad-winged Hawks - 7
7.      Red-tailed Hawks - 2
8.      Peregrine Falcon - 1 flying low at eye level on the tower. Nice
view.
9.      Sandhill Crane - 1





Other species seen by Dan and Barb from the Magee Observation Tower near the
bird center

1.      D.c. Cormorant
2.      Great Egret and Great Blue Heron
3.      Canada Goose and Wood Duck
4.      Herring Gull and Common Terns
5.      Mourning Doves and Downy Woodpecker
6.      Eastern Kingbird and Blue jays
7.      Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireo
8.      Purple Martin, Tree and Barn Swallow
9.      Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Gray Catbird
10.     Black-capped Chickadees and Cedar Waxwings
11.     Nashville, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, B.t.Green, and C. Yellowthroat
Warblers
12.     White-throated Sparrows, N. Cardinals and Baltimore Orioles





The Black Swamp Bird Observatory feeders today

1.      Ruby-throated Hummingbird - nice males at the feeder; my first of
the year. What a throat.
2.      Gray Catbirds - with their tails straight-up in the air, showing-off
their red butts.
3.      N. Parula - male singing-up in the old willow tree behind our bldg
4.      Yellow Warblers - everywhere and singing
5.      N. Waterthrush - singing under the old willow tree
6.      White-throated and lots of White-crowned Sparrows
7.      Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles
8.      Red-winged Blackbirds and C. Grackles
9.      American Goldfinch - the males are so brightly yellow now





Veler Road shorebirds off of Route 2; West of Magee Marsh but, just east of
Metzger Marsh

1.      Wilson's Phalarope - 3
2.      Black-bellied Plovers - 12
3.      Dunlin, Yellowlegs, and others.



Have a great weekend everyone.





Christopher J. Knoll

Education Director

Black Swamp Bird Observatory

13551 West State Route 2

Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449

Phone: 419-898-4070

Fax: 419-898-1363




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