A three hour birding trip this morning in the CVNP along a 2.5 mile stretch of Kendall Lake Rd from our home, and including the Kendall Lake Trail, resulted in 65 species. 

Highlights included 11 species of warblers with two Cerulean Warblers in full-throated song directly overhead, a lingering Red-breasted Nuthatch, and Orchard Orioles engaged in nest-building. 

I looked for the Red-headed Woodpeckers that Doug Vogus reported last week at the western end of Kendall Lake Road, but to no avail. Let's hope that they are nonetheless pioneering a new nesting area in the Valley...Today's full list with totals follows. 

--Patrick Coy
Peninsula, OH

65 species total

6       Canada Goose Branta canadensis
4       Wood Duck Aix sponsa
5       Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
1       Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
7       Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
1       Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
2       Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
1       Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
1       Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
4       Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
7       Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
1       Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
9       Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
6       Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens
1       Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus
4       Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
2       Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
1       Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
5       Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
4       Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
4       Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
2       Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
6       Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
7       American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
4       Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
10      Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
6       Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
1       Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
5       White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
5       Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
1       Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
3       Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
1       Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
1       Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
4       Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
9       American Robin Turdus migratorius
4       Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
6       European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
3       Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
1       Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
1       Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
1       Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla
11      Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
2       Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
2       Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
1       Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
1       Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
6       Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
2       Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
3       Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
8       Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
6       Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
2       Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
12      Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
4       White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
1       White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
2       Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
17      Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
2       Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
27      Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
5       Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
4       Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
2       Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
2       Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus
6       American Goldfinch Spinus tristis

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