Gary and others,

Seeing a Red-throated Loon (let alone 3 along the causeway) at Magee would be just shy of miraculous.  This is an extremely rare bird in NW Ohio with very few records of any kind.  I have tried to think of alternatives but am frankly having a difficult time coming up with some (Horned Grebe?).  The purpose of this note is certainly not to challenge you or "call you out".  But a friend emailed me this morning saying he couldn't talk his buddy out of driving down from Pontiac to look for these birds.  On the chance that others were going to chase this sighting, I just wanted to try to clarify what you saw in the form of field marks, behavior, etc.

Greg Links
Somewhere Near Toledo

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From: gary moon <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Magee Marsh , April 18,2010
Date:         Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:53:27 -0400

HIghlights included sighting 3 Red-Throated Loons along the causeway on both
arriving and departing the boardwalk area.

Gary Moon
Columbus,Ohio

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