Hi all, As winds continue from a northerly direction, little turnover has occurred in NW Ohio over the last week or so. The last notable push over a week ago and more recently the night of the 24th still brought in a few migrants, which are holding out until the winds switch back south. The Magee boardwalk has been quiet lately but still has a few dozen Yellow-rumped Warblers and smaller numbers of Black-throated Green, Pine, Palm, Nashville and an Orange-crowned Warbler. Other notable species include a male Summer Tanager (still present today on its fifth consecutive day), Baltimore Oriole, Wood Thrush, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, Least Bittern (calling north of the boardwalk on the 28th), all expected species of swallows, Green Heron and others. An American Woodcock has been really putting on a show daily near boardwalk marker #11 - at times foraging only a few feet away. It's interested to observe its behavior as it probes into the dirt and pause for a couple seconds before pulling its bill back up. The bench near #24 offers a vantage point to look north at the young Great Horned Owls popping their head out of the top of a large stump. A gray morph Eastern Screech-Owl has been seen by many near marker #12, literally right above the boardwalk. Just look for the whitewash underneath. When looking up, be sure to keep your mouth shut! For a map of the boardwalk markers, see here (http://www.bsbo.org/Birding/pdf/magee_marsh_boardwalk_map_and_text.pdf) Shorebirds in the area continue to be present. Be sure to check all of the regular sites: MS7 and MS4 along the Ottawa NWR Auto Tour (open next on May 5th & 6th), Benton-Carroll Road, Ottawa-Lucas Road, Metzger Marsh, and various other locations. Recent highlights include: American Golden-Plover - 100+ were on the south side of Kolbe Road between Lickert-Harder and Benton-Carroll Roads on Apr 21 and 22. Black-bellied Plover - One individual in full-breeding plumage was present off Benton-Carroll Road late this afternoon but was gone by the evening. Semipalmated Plover - Two were off Benton-Carroll Road this afternoon/evening Upland Sandpiper - One was observed off State Route 105, just west of Lickert-Harder Road on the south side of the road on April 24th Good numbers of Dunlin persist at most locations along with Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least, Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers, Wilson's Snipe and Killdeer. There have been 17 species of shorebirds in the region so far this spring. Other interesting birds in the region over the past week include: American White Pelicans, Sandhill Cranes, Black-crowned Night-Herons, three species of terns, Lapland Longspurs and a second-hand report of a Tricolored Heron at Metzger. The weather is still holding up to produce a good influx of migrants by mid next week as predicted by Kenn Kaufman on his informative migration outlook (http://cranecreekbirding.blogspot.com/). It looks like the weather forecast has changed a little since and we might be getting an influx of birds as early as Tuesday morning depending on the rain Monday night! For maps of the area visit: http://www.bsbo.org/Birding/birding_hotspots.htm For Kenn Kaufman's migration predications visit: http://www.bsbo.org/Birding/birding_hotspots.htm For live tweets on what's being seen in the Magee region visit: https://twitter.com/BiggestWeek With May just around the corner and the Biggest Week in American Birding commencing next week, I bet I will be seeing a lot of you up soon! Be sure to stop by Black Swamp Bird Observatory and let me know what interesting birds you have seen in the area. Good birding, Ethan Kistler Education and Outreach Specialist Black Swamp Bird Observatory Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449 419-898-4070 2011 League of Ohio Sportsmen Conservation Organization of the Year Award 2012 Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce Prism Award for Community Improvement www.bsbobird.org www.ohioyoungbirders.org www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.com BSBO on Facebook and Twitter OYBC on Facebook BIRDING OHIO on Facebook ______________________________________________________________________ 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]