What a beautiful day for our March bird count!  Golden-crowned kinglets
everywhere!   Lots of beautiful Fox Sparrow and many Flickers.   I have
had many calls this week asking if the warblers were here yet because of
the unusual warm weather we have had.  As most of you know, the signal
to migrate is more regulated by the length of daylight than the weather.
Most of the warblers are still in the tropics.
So I suspect that the migration will be pretty much on schedule.  The
vegetation now is another story!  The trees and shrubs are really
leaving out,  several weeks earlier than normal.  And lots of insects
out already!   So , we'll see how it all plays
out.......................

Today we saw or heard the following species:

Canada Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Wood Duck, Gadwal, Pied-billed Grebe,
Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret,  Mallard, Am.
Black Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged teal, Lesser Scaup, Hooded
Merganser, Common Merganser, Bald Eagle, Am Coot, Killdeer, Ring-billed
Gull, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, N. Flicker, Red=bellied
Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, E. Phoebe, Tree Swallow, Black-capped
Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Winter Wren, Carolina
Wren, Am Robin, Golden-crowned Kinglet, European Starling, Red-Winged
Blackbird, Common Grackle, Rusty Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, N.
Cardinal, E. Towhee,  Dark-eyed Junco, Am Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow,
Song Sparrow, Am Goldfinch, House Sparrow.

We are doing a Woodcock Walk on Saturday, March 24.  Meet outside the
Bird Center at 7 pm. 

Happy Birding!

Mary L. Warren
Wildlife Communications Specialist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
13229 W. State Route 2
Oak Harbor, OH  43449
419-898-0960 #31
FAX: 419-898-4017
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