Hi folks, Birds are slowly trickling into Magee Marsh right now. The boardwalk was a little slow, but the usual early migrants (Yellow-rumped warbler, hermit thrush, blue-gray gnatcatcher, ruby-crowned kinglet, pine warbler) were seen. The most numerous waterfowl species was blue-winged teal, with rafts of ruddy ducks seen off of the beach. Here is our species list. Mallard Blue-winged teal Green-winged teal Gadwall Wood duck Northern pintail Pied-billed grebe Ruddy duck Lesser scaup Hooded merganser Ring-necked duck Canada goose Trumpeter swan American coot Great egret Great blue heron Double-crested cormorant Herring gull Bonaparte's gull Common tern Greater yellowlegs Lesser yellowlegs Pectoral sandpiper Killdeer Wilson's snipe Bald eagle Red-tailed hawk Barn swallow Tree swallow Purple martin Downy woodpecker Red-bellied woodpecker Northern flicker Northern cardinal American robin Hermit thrush House wren Winter wren Mourning dove Rock pigeon Golden-crowned kinglet Ruby-crowned kinglet Yellow-rumped warbler Pine warbler Blue-gray gnatcatcher Eastern phoebe Chipping sparrow Song sparrow Swamp sparrow White-throated sparrow House sparrow Eastern towhee Brown thrasher European starling Common grackle Red-winged blackbird Rusty blackbird Brown-headed cowbird American goldfinch House finch Jim Witter Seasonal Naturalist Sportsmen's Migratory Bird Center Magee Marsh Wildlife Area 13229 W. St. Rt. 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449 419-898-0960 ext. 29 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]