Hi all,

Last nights southerly winds brought in even more migrants to the Magee area, but the fierce winds (and weekday) seemed to keep the number of birders considerably down. I only had time for a quick 30min stop this morning before work but the west entrance to the Magee boardwalk produced several Pine Warblers, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and a vocal Northern Parula amongst the scores of Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-throated Sparrows.

Mid-morning, staff at Black Swamp Bird Observatory received exciting news from our banding team at the Navarre banding site behind Davis-Besse Power Plant (a few miles from Magee). They banded five species of warblers including a Blackburnian! If I'm not mistaken, this represents the earliest record for the Toledo region by one day - the second earliest was April 15, 1974. The earliest record  for the Cleveland area according to the Birds of the Cleveland Region is April 18, 2002, so this represents quite the record. Also banded were Hooded, two Palms, Ovenbird, Yellow-rumped, Wood Thrush, and four Sharp-shinned Hawks.

After several meetings, John Sawvel and I headed back to the Magee boardwalk between 5:55pm-7:10pm. With the fierce winds, we focused most of our time along the north edge of the woods and the north part of the larger loop. Within a few minutes between markers 20n and 13, we had a stunning male Scarlet Tanager (possibly the second earliest record by one day for the Toledo region??), Louisiana Waterthrush, White-eyed Vireo, Gray Catbird and an Ovenbird! Elsewhere along the boardwalk were the typical Yellow-rumped and Pine Warblers, Northern Parula, Hermit Thrushes, White-throated Sparrows, Rusty Blackbirds etc.

A quick stop at the East Beach Trail produced a second White-eyed Vireo right at dusk.

Remember, you can get live coverage of what's currently being seen in the Magee area by following the Biggest Week twitter page here (twitter.com/BiggestWeek)

Good birding!

Ethan Kistler


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Black Swamp Bird Observatory
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