I birded the Lake Erie Bluffs in Lake County this morning. There were 17 species of warblers including a singing Connecticut warbler. It was found in the extreme southwest corner of the big loop trail west of Lane Road. The bird was singing very sparingly and was seen only briefly. It was in a dense stand of honeysuckle. Other birds of note this morning were 5 mourning warblers, all of the flycatchers except olive-sided, and 2,800 waxwings What was interesting was the waxwings were flying west and all of the blue jays were heading east.


Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US
May 26, 2016 6:50 AM - 10:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments:     There were a lot of birds migrating today.  Blue jays were heading east and waxwings west.  A late meadowlark was seen flying out over the lake heading west.  Warblers  other than local breeders were mainly females.  Most were high up in the red oak trees that were flowering.
92 species

Canada Goose  41
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Wild Turkey  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  34
Osprey  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Bald Eagle  3
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  2
Dunlin  31
Ring-billed Gull  189
Herring Gull  14
Mourning Dove  4
Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Chimney Swift  13
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-headed Woodpecker  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  2
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  3
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  2
Acadian Flycatcher  4
Alder Flycatcher  2
Willow Flycatcher  13
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  7
Warbling Vireo  12
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  10
Blue Jay  370     Large numbers of blue jays were migrating east along the lake
American Crow  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  41
Purple Martin  9
Tree Swallow  6
Bank Swallow  275
Barn Swallow  5
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
House Wren  6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Veery  6
Gray-cheeked Thrush  1
Swainson's Thrush  8
Wood Thrush  14
American Robin  29
Gray Catbird  74
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  22
American Pipit  6
Cedar Waxwing  2860     Large numbers of waxwings were moving west along the lake.  One flock of 400 and two of 300 were among the flocks counted.
Ovenbird  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  1
Connecticut Warbler  1     One bird was singing very sparingly in the southwest corner of the Lane Road loop trail.  Bird was observed very briefly.
Mourning Warbler  5
Common Yellowthroat  19
American Redstart  35
Magnolia Warbler  4
Bay-breasted Warbler  2
Yellow Warbler  122
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  2
Canada Warbler  3
Wilson's Warbler  2
Yellow-breasted Chat  1
Chipping Sparrow  3
Field Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  52
Lincoln's Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  4
Eastern Towhee  4
Northern Cardinal  27
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  8
Indigo Bunting  4
Red-winged Blackbird  27
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Common Grackle  12
Brown-headed Cowbird  15
Orchard Oriole  7
Baltimore Oriole  9
House Finch  3


John Pogacnik

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.


You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]