Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, Ohio, US Apr 30, 2018 6:45 AM - 9:15 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Winds were west-southwest. Migration was a bit on the slow side. Most birds were heading west. 47 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 38 Mallard 7 Lesser Scaup 1 Red-breasted Merganser 117 Double-crested Cormorant 678 Great Blue Heron 21 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 42 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 4 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Rough-legged Hawk 1 One light phase rough-legged hawk passed by heading east. Noted were the whitish underwings with slightly darker underwing coverts. There were distinct dark marks at the bend of the wing. The tail was dark with a white rump. Wings were long and narrow. It appeared to be a female. Bonaparte's Gull 14 Ring-billed Gull 423 Herring Gull 51 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Caspian Tern 45 Common Tern 6 Forster's Tern 2 Mourning Dove 22 Chimney Swift 4 Belted Kingfisher 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 54 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 26 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Purple Martin 6 Tree Swallow 34 Barn Swallow 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 American Robin 176 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 44 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 5 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Red-winged Blackbird 384 Brown-headed Cowbird 111 Common Grackle 84 blackbird sp. 400 Pine Siskin 3 American Goldfinch 63 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]