Hello everybody, Here is the monthly bird census for Magee Marsh, conducted on Tuesday, May 19. I would have liked to stay out longer, but a 2nd grade group beckoned back at the bird center. The highlights were a Kirtland's warbler (reported about 30 min after I passed through) and a Little Blue Heron seen along the causeway near the 2nd gravel pull-off heading towards the boardwalk. The Kirtland's has apparently been hanging around for a couple days, as it was reported today around noon. A couple Mourning warblers and a Connecticut warbler were on the boardwalk. Jim Witter Seasonal naturalist Magee Marsh Wildlife Area Wood duck Mallard Double-crested cormorant Least bittern (heard on walking trail near Bird Center) Great blue heron Great egret Snowy egret Little blue heron Green heron (quite a few) Black-crowned night heron Bald Eagle American coot Semipalmated plover Killdeer Ruddy turnstone Semipalmated sandpiper Dunlin Ring-billed gull Herring gull Common tern Mourning dove Eastern screech owl Downy woodpecker Eastern wood-pewee Willow flycatcher Least flycatcher Eastern phoebe Great crested flycatcher Eastern kingbird Warbling vireo Red-eyed vireo Blue jay Purple martin Tree swallow Barn swallow House wren Marsh wren Blue-gray gnatcatcher Gray-cheeked thrush Swainson's thrush American robin Gray catbird Brown thrasher European starling Cedar waxwing Northern parula warbler Yellow warbler Chestnut-sided warbler Magnolia warbler Black-throated blue warbler Blackburnian warbler Kirtland's warbler Bay-breasted warbler Blackpoll warbler American redstart Prothonotary warbler Northern waterthrush Connecticut warbler Mourning warbler Common yellowthroat Wilson's warbler Canada warbler Scarlet tanager Chipping sparrow Song sparrow Lincoln's sparrow Swamp sparrow White-throated sparrow White-crowned sparrow Northern cardinal Red-winged blackbird Common grackle Brown-headed cowbird Orchard oriole Baltimore oriole House finch American goldfinch House sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]