Lake Erie Bluffs was alive with birds this morning. The trees along the north side of the Lane Road loop trail were just loaded. Each tree seemed to have 10-20 birds in it. I ended up with 22 species of warblers including 2 orange-crowned, Kentucky, prairie, and chat. There was probably more that I missed. By 9:00 the numbers of birds dropped dramatically as most headed east along the lake shore. There were a lot of blue jays, kingbirds, and other songbirds flying east overhead. It was the best day I have had this spring. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US May 12, 2016 6:50 AM - 10:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) Comments: there was a large fallout of birds early in the morning along the lakeshore. the birds slowly headed east along the lake. 104 species Canada Goose 3 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 2 Red-breasted Merganser 7 Wild Turkey 1 Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 132 Turkey vultures were migrating with kettles noted of 20 and 30+ birds. Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Ring-billed Gull 266 Herring Gull 34 Caspian Tern 1 Common Tern 11 Forster's Tern 3 Mourning Dove 18 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 12 Northern Flicker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 6 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 28 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 16 Red-eyed Vireo 11 Blue Jay 1884 Constant large flocks of blue jays were migrating east. American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 85 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 17 Bank Swallow 320 Barn Swallow 11 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 House Wren 12 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Eastern Bluebird 2 Veery 8 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 9 Hermit Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 8 American Robin 26 Gray Catbird 94 Catbirds were everywhere in the brushy habitat. Brown Thrasher 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 67 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 8 Kentucky Warbler 1 The Kentucky was along the Lane Road trail near the trail that heads down to the beach. Common Yellowthroat 54 American Redstart 9 Cape May Warbler 6 Northern Parula 1 Blackburnian Warbler 3 Yellow Warbler 148 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 67 Other than yellow warblers, palm warblers were the most numerous warbler. They were everywhere Yellow-rumped Warbler 26 Prairie Warbler 1 The prairie warbler was a little east of the overlook in the northwest corner of the Lane Road trail. Black-throated Green Warbler 4 Canada Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 The chat was along the trees along the lake. None were found where they usually breed Chipping Sparrow 7 Field Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 74 White-throated Sparrow 24 Song Sparrow 48 Lincoln's Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 11 Eastern Towhee 5 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 25 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7 Indigo Bunting 11 Red-winged Blackbird 36 Common Grackle 22 Brown-headed Cowbird 37 Orchard Oriole 11 Baltimore Oriole 46 House Finch 1 Purple Finch 3 American Goldfinch 64 John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]