Andy Avram and myself did a little birding at the Lake Erie Bluffs this morning. we started at the tower and it was pretty good with several thousand waxwings and other migrants including several unidentified warblers. We also took around the area and not a lot was singing. Things seemed to slow down pretty quickly possibly due to the heat. here is a list of what was found.


Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, Ohio, US
May 25, 2018 7:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Light southeast winds. It warmed up quick and things quieted down fast. There were numerous flocks of cedar waxwings all heading west. Some flocks of several hundred birds were noted.
70 species

Canada Goose  22
Wood Duck  1
Mallard  2
Red-breasted Merganser  2
Wild Turkey  1
Double-crested Cormorant  29
Great Blue Heron  12
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  36
Osprey  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Black-billed Cuckoo  3
Chimney Swift  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Willow Flycatcher  6
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  27
Warbling Vireo  5
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  116
American Crow  7
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  43
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  8
Bank Swallow  240
Barn Swallow  11
Black-capped Chickadee  1
House Wren  3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Veery  1
Swainson's Thrush  2
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  32
Brown Thrasher  2
European Starling  31
Cedar Waxwing  6240     Large flocks were constant in the morning, all heading west. Some flocks of several hundred birds were noted
Common Yellowthroat  8
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler  47
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  3
Field Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  19
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  1
Scarlet Tanager  5
Northern Cardinal  14
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  7
Bobolink  5
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Orchard Oriole  3
Baltimore Oriole  21
Red-winged Blackbird  63
Brown-headed Cowbird  19
Common Grackle  11
American Goldfinch  27


John Pogacnik

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