Andy Avram and myself did a little birding at the Lake Erie Bluffs this morning. we started at the tower and it was pretty good with several thousand waxwings and other migrants including several unidentified warblers. We also took around the area and not a lot was singing. Things seemed to slow down pretty quickly possibly due to the heat. here is a list of what was found. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark, Lake, Ohio, US May 25, 2018 7:00 AM - 10:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 4.5 mile(s) Comments: Light southeast winds. It warmed up quick and things quieted down fast. There were numerous flocks of cedar waxwings all heading west. Some flocks of several hundred birds were noted. 70 species Canada Goose 22 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 2 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Wild Turkey 1 Double-crested Cormorant 29 Great Blue Heron 12 Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 36 Osprey 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Spotted Sandpiper 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Black-billed Cuckoo 3 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Willow Flycatcher 6 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 27 Warbling Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 116 American Crow 7 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 43 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 8 Bank Swallow 240 Barn Swallow 11 Black-capped Chickadee 1 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Veery 1 Swainson's Thrush 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 32 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 31 Cedar Waxwing 6240 Large flocks were constant in the morning, all heading west. Some flocks of several hundred birds were noted Common Yellowthroat 8 American Redstart 1 Yellow Warbler 47 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 19 Swamp Sparrow 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Scarlet Tanager 5 Northern Cardinal 14 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 7 Bobolink 5 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Orchard Oriole 3 Baltimore Oriole 21 Red-winged Blackbird 63 Brown-headed Cowbird 19 Common Grackle 11 American Goldfinch 27 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]