I hope this is easier to read. Here are the final totals from today at the Lake Erie Bluffs. For directions to the park, go to lakemetroparks.com. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, US-OH May 7, 2015 7:00 AM - 1:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.7 mile(s) 116 species Canada Goose 8 Mallard 7 Lesser Scaup 2 Bufflehead 1 Red-breasted Merganser 54 Wild Turkey 4 Common Loon 1 Horned Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 19 American Bittern 1 Great Blue Heron 4 Turkey Vulture 61 Sharp-shinned Hawk 7 Bald Eagle 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Golden-Plover 31 Flew low heading east. Its the first spring flock of American golden plovers I've seen in Lake County Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Wilson's Snipe 1 American Woodcock 1 Bonaparte's Gull 22 Ring-billed Gull 245 Herring Gull 28 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Caspian Tern 8 Common Tern 4 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1 Mourning Dove 3 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 9 Downy Woodpecker 14 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 11 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Merlin 1 Acadian Flycatcher 2 Willow Flycatcher 3 Singing and heard Least Flycatcher 5 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 6 Red-eyed Vireo 5 Blue Jay 2300 Flocks of up to 300 seen through 11:30 along the shoreline American Crow 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 80 Purple Martin 6 Tree Swallow 9 Bank Swallow 350 Barn Swallow 24 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 7 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Eastern Bluebird 2 Veery 5 Swainson's Thrush 7 Wood Thrush 8 American Robin 38 Gray Catbird 110 Catbirds were abundant with close to 30 in one area feeding on sumac. The number reported is a conservative estimate. They could be heard continuously throughout the trail. Brown Thrasher 11 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 35 Northern Waterthrush 3 Blue-winged Warbler 3 Golden-winged Warbler 1 adult male seen and heard Black-and-white Warbler 2 Prothonotary Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 7 Mourning Warbler 1 one male seen and heard Common Yellowthroat 39 American Redstart 12 Cape May Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 170 170 is a very conservative estimate. They were even in the wooded areas. there were so many, it was hard to get a good count. They were everywhere Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 11 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 26 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 One heard and seen Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 2 Eastern Towhee 3 Chipping Sparrow 16 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 45 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 16 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 39 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 46 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 6 Red-winged Blackbird 58 Rusty Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 42 Brown-headed Cowbird 48 Orchard Oriole 14 Baltimore Oriole 92 Most were overhead migrating east House Finch 2 Purple Finch 3 Pine Siskin 16 American Goldfinch 175 View this checklist online at <http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23290256> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23290256 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 ( <http://ebird.org/> http://ebird.org) John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]