Hi Folks - In a rare occasion, uniform-lacking Cleveland Metroparks naturalists hit the boardwalk of Magee this morning (5/14) to spend an inservice day with neotropic migrants. There wasn't a boatload of birds, but the diversity was fulfilling. Highlights included prolonged looks at a male Mourning Warbler, at least 3 Canada Warblers, two obliging American Woodcocks, two Philadelphia Vireos, and may favorite, a brief frenzied spazz-attack and boardwalk bumper-to-bumper block over a not-so-obliging Black-billed Cuckoo. A nice influx of Wilson's Warblers was evident, but Magnolia and Chesnut-sided, and Am Redstart reigned on high. A single Yellow-bellied Flycatcher put in a very brief appearance. An increase in thrushes was clearly evident, with one Wood, 4 Veeries, and in one spot alone, nearly a dozen Swainson's Thrushes. Highlights listed, warblers first (22 species): Yellow Warbler - abundant Palm Warbler - 2 Nashville Warbler - 5 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 25 Magnolia Warbler - 40 Bay-breasted Warbler - 7 Canada Warbler - 4 (1fem) Wilson's Warbler - 10 Cape May Warbler - 2 (females) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 4 fem, 1 male Black-throated Blue Warbler - 8 fem, 2 males Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 females Black-and-white Warbler - 10 fem, 2 males Mourning Warbler - 1 male (at least 2 reported) American Redstart - 3 im males, 10 fem, 6 males Ovenbird - 6 Common Yellowthroat - 10 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Philadelphia Vireo - 2 Warbling Vireo - abundant Eastern Kingbird - 2 Willow Flycatcher - 3 Least Flycatcher - 4 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 Veery - 4 Swainson's Thrush - 13 Wood Thrush - 1 Hermit Thrush - 2 Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 (2 studied well) White-throated Sparrow (still most abundant sparrow sp. on trail) Random: Eastern Screech-Owl pair American Woodcock - 2 (far end of easternmost loop) Cedar Waxwing - 8 (parking lot) Snowy Egret - 1 (causeway) Semipalmated Plover - 2 obliging birds in drawn-down 'canal' on far easternmost loop (nice to see from boardwalk) cheers Jen Jen Brumfield Akron, Ohio [log in to unmask] Birding America / www.birding-america.com Illustrator/Naturalist, Cleveland Metroparks Nikon Birding Optics ProStaff/ nikonusa.com Editorial Advisor, A Bird's-Eye View / ABA personal site: www.meadowhawkart.com "Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will." - Lawrence Durrell "Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventure." - L. Drachman _________________________________________________________________ More photos, more messages, more storage—get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]