On Tuesday, April 29th Paul Berrigan and I birded NW Ohio, starting in the Oak Openings area. In the early morning, clear with little wind. We started on the perimeter of the Toledo Airport on Sager Road. We birded Oak Openings and Irwin Prairie before moving east of Toledo to bird the Magee Marsh area. References to "boardwalk" are to the Crane Creek/Magee Marsh boardwalk. Here are some highlights today: Sandhill Crane--1 at Irwin Prairie (prospecting?) Greater Yellowlegs--1 Irwin Prairie Lesser Yellowlegs--3 Irwin Prairie Dunlin--70 Bodi Road Red-headed Woodpecker--refreshingly common at Oak Openings Least Flycatcher--1 boardwalk White-eyed Vireo--2 boardwalk Yellow-throated Vireo--2 Oak Openings Winter Wren--3 still along boardwalk Red-eyed Vireo--1 boardwalk Mockingbird--1 Irwin Prairie Veery--4 boardwalk Swainson's Thrush--1 boardwalk Blue-winged Warbler--one Oak Openings Cape May Warbler--1 male boardwalk Pine Warbler--2 boardwalk Bay-breasted Warbler--1 male at Metzgar Marsh Northern Waterthrush--1 Irwin Prairie Louisiana Waterthrush--one seen singing along rails to trails path off of Watkins Road at Oak Openings Hooded Warbler--one male boardwalk Rose-breasted Grosbeak--1 Irwin Prairie Indigo Bunting--2 Oak Openings Lark Sparrow--4 on Girdham Road near Reed Road Henslow's Sparrow--1 seen singing on Sager Road by Toledo Airport Purple Finch--one young male singing at Oak Openings off of Girdham & Reed Roads Pine Siskin--1 or 2 heard near intersection of Girdham and Reed Road Cheers, Karl Overman Farmington Hills, Mi ______________________________________________________________________ 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]