I birded the bluffs this morning on the trail and wooded areas west of Lane Road. There were a lot of waxwings moving west along the lake, none stopped. there were 16 species of warblers including 7 mournings and a chat. All of the flycatchers were found including 3 alder and an olive-sided. There were several kettles of turkey vultures, which were probably locals, but they seemed to attract some hawks. Hawks found were northern harrier, sharp-shinned, broad-winged, and red-tailed. A merlin was sighted, but may be nesting locally. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US May 25, 2016 6:45 AM - 10:20 AM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) 99 species Canada Goose 34 Mallard 2 Double-crested Cormorant 3 American Bittern 2 Turkey Vulture 88 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 2 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 7 Killdeer 1 American Woodcock 1 Ring-billed Gull 214 Herring Gull 23 Mourning Dove 5 Black-billed Cuckoo 2 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 6 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 4 American Kestrel 1 Merlin 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2 Acadian Flycatcher 2 Alder Flycatcher 3 Willow Flycatcher 16 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 5 Eastern Kingbird 11 Warbling Vireo 9 Philadelphia Vireo 3 Red-eyed Vireo 17 Blue Jay 233 American Crow 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 58 Purple Martin 11 Tree Swallow 15 Bank Swallow 290 Barn Swallow 6 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 House Wren 12 Sedge Wren 1 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Veery 8 Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 Swainson's Thrush 15 Wood Thrush 16 American Robin 32 Gray Catbird 78 Brown Thrasher 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 35 Cedar Waxwing 1640 Numerous flocks of 40-50+ were heading west along the lake Ovenbird 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 3 Mourning Warbler 7 Common Yellowthroat 31 American Redstart 19 Northern Parula 1 Magnolia Warbler 2 Bay-breasted Warbler 8 Yellow Warbler 115 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 Canada Warbler 3 Wilson's Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Chipping Sparrow 5 Field Sparrow 4 White-crowned Sparrow 6 one group of 6 near the bank swallow overlook Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 47 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 5 Eastern Towhee 4 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 19 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 8 Indigo Bunting 9 Red-winged Blackbird 32 Common Grackle 14 Brown-headed Cowbird 22 Orchard Oriole 6 Baltimore Oriole 11 Purple Finch 1 American Goldfinch 31 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]