Perhaps I should have noted - the shorebirds that I reported yesterday at Willow Point W.A. are not even visible until you walk the dike between the impoundments east for a bit. There is a small cove in the impoundment to the south, and there were a good number of birds in here, unless, of course, the water levels have been raised overnight. This is roughly parallel to the patch of dead trees in the impoundment to the north, if I recall correctly.
However, if legal entry is unallowed into Pickerel Creek WA, then perhaps the same is true here, as teal/goose-hunting is definitely is full effect on this refuge, as well.
Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland
--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Craig Caldwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Craig Caldwell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [Ohio-birds] NW Ohio marshes
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 7:09 PM
> This pm at Pickerel - the pond north
> of the woodlot (access from Lot B) has been flooded; no bare
> shore at all. Some unvegetated spots visible from the
> observation platform had both yellowlegs, semipalmated
> plover. There's no legal entry to the ponds there because
> of the hunting.
>
> Both ponds behind the "Fish Work Unit" buildings at Willow
> Point are flooded; the closer has a very small bit of open
> shore which was birdless.
>
> Re the Lorain impoundment, as Gabe noted, what little land
> isn't covered with phragmites and smartweed is dry.
>
> Craig Caldwell
> Westlake
>
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