Here are the final totals from today at the Lake Erie Bluffs.  For directions to the park, go to lakemetroparks.com.Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, US-OHMay 7, 2015 7:00 AM - 1:15 PMProtocol: Traveling4.7 mile(s)116 speciesCanada Goose 8Mallard 7Lesser Scaup 2Bufflehead 1Red-breasted Merganser 54Wild Turkey 4Common Loon 1Horned Grebe 1Double-crested Cormorant 19American Bittern 1Great Blue Heron 4Turkey Vulture 61Sharp-shinned Hawk 7Bald Eagle 3Red-shouldered Hawk 1Red-tailed Hawk 2American Golden-Plover 31 Flew low heading east. Its the first spring flock of American golden plovers i'v seen in lake CountyKilldeer 1Spotted Sandpiper 1Solitary Sandpiper 2Wilson's Snipe 1American Woodcock 1Bonaparte's Gull 22Ring-billed Gull 245Herring Gull 28Great Black-backed Gull 1Caspian Tern 8Common Tern 4Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1Mourning Dove 3Great Horned Owl 1Chimney Swift 6Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4Belted Kingfisher 2Red-headed Woodpecker 1Red-bellied Woodpecker 9Downy Woodpecker 14Hairy Woodpecker 1Northern Flicker 11Pileated Woodpecker 1Merlin 1Acadian Flycatcher 2Willow Flycatcher 3 Singing and heardLeast Flycatcher 5Eastern Phoebe 1Great Crested Flycatcher 3Eastern Kingbird 2White-eyed Vireo 1Blue-headed Vireo 1Warbling Vireo 6Red-eyed Vireo 5Blue Jay 2300 Flocks of up to 300 seen through 11:30 along the shorelineAmerican Crow 5Northern Rough-winged Swallow 80Purple Martin 6Tree Swallow 9Bank Swallow 350Barn Swallow 24Black-capped Chickadee 3Tufted Titmouse 2White-breasted Nuthatch 1House Wren 7Carolina Wren 1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5Eastern Bluebird 2Veery 5Swainson's Thrush 7Wood Thrush 8American Robin 38Gray Catbird 110 Catbirds were abundant with close to 30 in one area feeding on sumac. The number reported is a conservative estimate. They could be heard continuously throughout the trail.Brown Thrasher 11Northern Mockingbird 1European Starling 35Northern Waterthrush 3Blue-winged Warbler 3Golden-winged Warbler 1 adult male seen and heardBlack-and-white Warbler 2Prothonotary Warbler 1Nashville Warbler 7Mourning Warbler 1 one male seen and heardCommon Yellowthroat 39American Redstart 12Cape May Warbler 1Yellow Warbler 170 170 is a very conservative estimate. They were even in the wooded areas. there were so many, it was hard to get a good count. They were everywhereChestnut-sided Warbler 1Palm Warbler 11Pine Warbler 1Yellow-rumped Warbler 26Yellow-throated Warbler 1 One heard and seenBlack-throated Green Warbler 1Yellow-breasted Chat 2Eastern Towhee 3Chipping Sparrow 16Field Sparrow 1Song Sparrow 45Lincoln's Sparrow 1Swamp Sparrow 4White-throated Sparrow 16White-crowned Sparrow 7Dark-eyed Junco 1Scarlet Tanager 2Northern Cardinal 39Rose-breasted Grosbeak 46Indigo Bunting 2Bobolink 6Red-winged Blackbird 58Rusty Blackbird 2Common Grackle 42Brown-headed Cowbird 48Orchard Oriole 14Baltimore Oriole 92 Most were overhead migrating eastHouse Finch 2Purple Finch 3Pine Siskin 16American Goldfinch 175View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23290256This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
John Pogacnik                                     
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