My dad and I birded at Lake Erie this weekend, a treat that we do not get to experience very often. On 9/23/07, Sheldon Marsh was the Highlight and we saw may warblers and other birds including: Kinglets Yellow Warbler (1) White throated Sparrows Black and White (2) Blackpoll (several) Chestnut Sided (several) Magnolia F. Redstart Black Throated Blue !!!! Phoebe Nashville (1) Cedar Waxwings (many) Red Tail Hawk Sharp Shin Hawk Mute Swan Little Green Heron Kingfisher Red Winged Chimney Swifts Great Egrets Cormorants Ringed Billed Gulls Catbirds We also had some Warblers and other birds at Magee but we had to work for them. Chestnut Sided (several) Dozens Red Winged Blackbirds Kentucky -this bird was up by the office seen from the tower Blackpolls Catbirds Great Blues Swan Tundra(?) all black bill Northern Harrier (2) F. Blackburnian Our best time was at East Harbor State park on 9/23/07 where we birded from 8:30-9:30 at the Campers Only Dock. We ran into an interesting mix of birds including; Yellow bellied Sapsuckers (2) Flickers (2) Red Bellied Downy Cuckoos (2) Robins (numerous) Pied Billed Grebes(3) Blackpolls Red Eyed Vireo Parula Cedar Waxwings There were also many more Warblers that we could not or did not have time to identify. At the beach there were: Common Terns ( 100 plus) Bonaparte Gulls (several) Glaucous Gulls (20 Greater Blacked Backed Gull (10 Ringed Bills (150 plus) TV- eating something dead on the beach We also saw from the beach Hairy Woodpecker,Redwing Blackbirds, Flickers and Red Bellied I would recommend that if you don't have alot of time you go for East Harbor!!!! Shaune and Jim Skinner 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]