Greetings! Great two days birding. 97 first day, 89 species today with 112 for the combined two days. Not too bad. Though if I had hung out with Tom Bartlet all day, I would have had 103 or 104 for the day...or whatever the final number was. :-D But my total species count would have only gone up to 115 or so. Best birds: Day 1: Neotropic Cormorant, and Snowy Egret (Both over in Sandusky) Day 2: Kentucky Warbler...and the two second view I got of a Mourning Warbler. Only disappointment: No Orange-crowned Warbler...:-( But that is for next year I guess...If I didn't need all my days this year for something in the summer, I could have possibly gotten it...but I will try again next year. I have about 3-400 pictures to go through...looks like a rough week for my computer. :-D I will post a blog entry later on this week with all the photos from there. I did get a chance to get my hands on a Tamron 150-600 this weekend...on a Canon body...so sorry, no pics from it. First impressions are that it is a well built lens, quiet, and good detail. A little heavier than the Sigma, but still lighter than the Nikon 500mm. Only downside so far is that the zoom ring turns the wrong way...but I can deal with that I guess. :-D I am saddened for the family of the man that had passed away while there. Without going into detail...I think he died in a place that he loved. I remember seeing his van every year, and the Orioles he attracted to it. :-) He will be missed. Tell your mother/wife Happy Mother's Day, and that you love her, and take her birding...unless she wants to go to a restaurant...then I guess you do what she wants to do. :-D List of birds seen are below. Happy Birding and God Bless! Steve J. Magee Marsh Wildlife Area--Boardwalk, Lucas, US-OH May 10, 2014 5:30 AM - 5:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.3 89 species Canada Goose 3 Trumpeter Swan 2 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 4 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 1 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 2 Sora 4 Sandhill Crane 2 Killdeer 2 American Woodcock 4 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull 1 Caspian Tern 2 Common Tern 2 Mourning Dove 4 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Common Nighthawk 1 Eastern Whip-poor-will 1 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 3 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 2 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 30 Black-capped Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Veery 3 Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 Swainson's Thrush 4 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 2 Ovenbird 8 Northern Waterthrush 8 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Prothonotary Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 0 Nashville Warbler 2 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded Warbler 1 American Redstart 30 Cape May Warbler 5 Northern Parula 6 Magnolia Warbler 12 Bay-breasted Warbler 6 Blackburnian Warbler 3 Yellow Warbler 8 Chestnut-sided Warbler 20 Blackpoll Warbler 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler 8 Palm Warbler 30 Yellow-rumped Warbler 40 Wilson's Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 4 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 4 White-crowned Sparrow 6 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Common Grackle 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 6 American Goldfinch 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18322148 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]