Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, Ohio, US Apr 13, 2018 8:40 AM - 2:20 PM Protocol: Traveling 5.2 mile(s) Comments: Began stationary at the observation tower at Clark Road and after 9:45 moved over to Lane Road and walked the trails there. Despite the northeast winds, there was a significant movement of birds along throughout the area. Migration was fairly heavy until 10:00 and birds continued moving until about 12:30. Northern flickers moved non-stop throughout the first four hours, over 700 were counted. 89 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 24 Wood Duck 17 Blue-winged Teal 9 Gadwall 1 Mallard 14 American Black Duck 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Greater Scaup 2 Lesser Scaup 14 Bufflehead 2 Hooded Merganser 2 Common Merganser 6 Red-breasted Merganser 147 Ruddy Duck 17 Red-throated Loon 1 One was observed flying east low over the water. The thin profile, drooping neck in flight, small foot projection, pale gray coloration, and steady downbeat of the wings were all observed, Common Loon 8 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2180 Numerous large flocks were observed flying east over Lake Erie Great Blue Heron 7 Great Egret 1 Turkey Vulture 41 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 8 Sharp-shinned Hawk 13 Cooper's Hawk 2 Bald Eagle 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 6 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Sora 1 Feeding in small Phragmites lined wetland in the woods American Coot 2 Killdeer 3 Wilson's Snipe 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Bonaparte's Gull 24 Ring-billed Gull 322 Herring Gull 42 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Caspian Tern 47 Mourning Dove 131 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 733 Massive migration heading mostly west. It was rare to look and not see flickers in the air Pileated Woodpecker 1 American Kestrel 16 Merlin 1 Eastern Phoebe 14 Blue Jay 32 American Crow 19 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 142 Barn Swallow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 1 Brown Creeper 17 Winter Wren 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 26 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Eastern Bluebird 5 Hermit Thrush 11 American Robin 261 Brown Thrasher 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 112 American Pipit 5 Cedar Waxwing 18 Palm Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 44 American Tree Sparrow 2 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 14 Dark-eyed Junco 5 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 118 Swamp Sparrow 5 Eastern Towhee 12 Northern Cardinal 27 Eastern Meadowlark 4 Red-winged Blackbird 230 Brown-headed Cowbird 450 Rusty Blackbird 109 Common Grackle 71 blackbird sp. 500 Purple Finch 4 American Goldfinch 16 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]