I was at the Lake Erie Bluffs this morning for about three hours.  A couple brief showers and a couple peeks of sun kept it interesting. Along the lake there were a lot of cormorants moving with over 300 counted. Of note was a pair of female long-tailed ducks observed heading east. There were quite a few songbirds moving with blackbirds, swallows and blue jays making up the majority. Of note was a single calling fish crow.


There were a few songbirds along the trails west of Lane Road including four species of warblers, yellow-throated, palm, yellow-rumped and yellow. The yellow-throated was along the north side of the trail near the intersection with the trail that heads north to the beach. Also of note was an early male orchard oriole that I observed a few times .  It seemed to be moving around in the interior of the loop trail west of Lane Road.


Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US
Apr 19, 2017 7:10 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Widely scattered rain showers mixed with some partly sunny skies. There were several blue jay flocks moving east along the lake.
67 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  4
Wood Duck  1
Mallard  16
Long-tailed Duck  1     A pair of female long-tailed ducks were observed flying east along the lake.
Red-breasted Merganser  114
Common Loon  7     All were non-breeding plumaged birds
Horned Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  379
Great Blue Heron  9
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  106
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  9
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Broad-winged Hawk  4
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  1
Ring-billed Gull  280
Herring Gull  71
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Caspian Tern  2
Mourning Dove  3
Chimney Swift  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  28
Pileated Woodpecker  3     All were flying east along the lake,. Migrating?
American Kestrel  3
Blue Jay  211
American Crow  22
Fish Crow  1     A single fish crow flew directly overhead. It appeared very small.  It was also heard giving it's nasal call twice.
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  123
Purple Martin  4
Tree Swallow  175
Bank Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  8
swallow sp.  200
Black-capped Chickadee  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  2
Hermit Thrush  2
American Robin  28
Brown Thrasher  2
European Starling  11
Cedar Waxwing  4
Yellow Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  8
Yellow-throated Warbler  1     Heard and seen in trees along lakeshore on Lane road trail.
Chipping Sparrow  3
Field Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco  5
White-throated Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  24
Swamp Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  3
Northern Cardinal  17
Red-winged Blackbird  390
Common Grackle  66
Brown-headed Cowbird  588
Orchard Oriole  1     An early male orchard oriole was observed several times and heard moving around in the large field area west of Lane Road.
blackbird sp.  1500
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  18


John Pogacnik

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