Causeway birds at Magee 1. Pied-billed Grebe 2. Great Blue Herons 3. Great Egrets 4. Snowy Egrets 5. Green Heron 6. Black-crowned Night Herons 7. Northern Harrier 8. Killdeer 9. Greater Yellowlegs 10. Common Terns Warblers at the boardwalk 1. Blue-winged and Golden-winged 2. Tennessee and Nashville 3. Orange-crowned and Yellow 4. Northern Parula and Chestnut-sided 5. Magnolia and Cape May 6. Black-throated Blue and Black-throated Green 7. Yellow-rumped and Blackburnian 8. Palm and Bay-breasted 9. Cerulean and Black & White 10. American Redstart and Prothonotary 11. Worm-eating and Ovenbird 12. N. Waterthrush and Kentucky 13. Mourning and C. Yellowthroat 14. Hooded and Wilson's 15. Canada and Yellow-breasted Chat Other boardwalk birds at Magee 1. LEAST BITTERN - heard by many people 2. SORA - 2 very active near the east end of the boardwalk. Last week they were eating snails by the dozens. 3. Common Terns - flyovers 4. Mourning Doves - several seen 5. Black-billed & Yellow-billed Cuckoo 6. Great-horned Owls 7. Chimney Swifts - flying overhead 8. Downy and Red-bellied Woodpecker 9. Northern Flickers 10. Least and Great-crested Flycatchers 11. Eastern Kingbird 12. White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, Warbling, Philadelphia, and Red-eyed Vireo's 13. Blue jays - migrating in flocks overhead 14. Tree and Barn Swallows 15. House Wrens - in good numbers now 16. Ruby-crowned Kinglets - mostly females now 17. American Robin, Veery, Swainson's, and Wood Thrush 18. Gray Catbirds - in large numbers now 19. Scarlet Tanager - a beautiful male seen today 20. Song, Lincoln's, Swamp, and White-throated Sparrows 21. N. Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and one Indigo Bunting (male) 22. Red-winged Blackbirds, C. Grackles, and both Orioles 23. Pine Siskins - 2 late birds seen on the boardwalk. Hawk Watch - Last day of the research - by Dan and Barb Myers - at the Magee Observation Tower near the bird center 1. Turkey Vultures - 24 2. Osprey - 2 3. Bald Eagles 4. Northern Harrier -1 5. Sharp-shinned Hawks - 3 6. Broad-winged Hawks - 7 7. Red-tailed Hawks - 2 8. Peregrine Falcon - 1 flying low at eye level on the tower. Nice view. 9. Sandhill Crane - 1 Other species seen by Dan and Barb from the Magee Observation Tower near the bird center 1. D.c. Cormorant 2. Great Egret and Great Blue Heron 3. Canada Goose and Wood Duck 4. Herring Gull and Common Terns 5. Mourning Doves and Downy Woodpecker 6. Eastern Kingbird and Blue jays 7. Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireo 8. Purple Martin, Tree and Barn Swallow 9. Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Gray Catbird 10. Black-capped Chickadees and Cedar Waxwings 11. Nashville, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, B.t.Green, and C. Yellowthroat Warblers 12. White-throated Sparrows, N. Cardinals and Baltimore Orioles The Black Swamp Bird Observatory feeders today 1. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - nice males at the feeder; my first of the year. What a throat. 2. Gray Catbirds - with their tails straight-up in the air, showing-off their red butts. 3. N. Parula - male singing-up in the old willow tree behind our bldg 4. Yellow Warblers - everywhere and singing 5. N. Waterthrush - singing under the old willow tree 6. White-throated and lots of White-crowned Sparrows 7. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles 8. Red-winged Blackbirds and C. Grackles 9. American Goldfinch - the males are so brightly yellow now Veler Road shorebirds off of Route 2; West of Magee Marsh but, just east of Metzger Marsh 1. Wilson's Phalarope - 3 2. Black-bellied Plovers - 12 3. Dunlin, Yellowlegs, and others. Have a great weekend everyone. Christopher J. Knoll Education Director Black Swamp Bird Observatory 13551 West State Route 2 Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449 Phone: 419-898-4070 Fax: 419-898-1363 Visit us at: www.bsbobird.org www.ohioyoungbirders.org We are the proud sponsor of the Ohio Young Birders Club. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]