Hello, A single American White Pelican made a brief 2-3 hour stop in Mentor Marsh this evening viewed from Mentor Lagoons looking east. It was first found by David Kriska, and thanks to Dave Chase for getting the word out. Unfortunately, around 5pm, the bird took flight, circled around the parking lot and marsh for five minutes, then finally flew out of sight towards the northeast, as five of had viewed it. This was Ray’s 199th species for the Mentor area for May 2018, a new record for number of species in the month of May recorded by him (previous was 198; it didn’t look good for passing that number this year, but with the pelican, that changed!). A link to my checklist with pictures attached can be viewed here: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S46166430 On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:39 PM Cole DiFabio <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Unfortunately (or fortunately for the birds sake), almost all migrant > warblers and most other migrant birds are through, as Headlands Dunes SNP > in Lake County has seen a great reduction in species. This morning (May > 30th) only warblers seen at Headlands were Common Yellowthroat, American > Redstart, Magnolia Warbler, Yellow Warbler and Canada Warbler. A surprise, > however, at Mentor Lagoons was a vocal Prothonotary Warbler. We presume > this was a late migrant though, as it was foraging and moving through the > forest quickly. Common Gallinules are still being observed at the lagoons > as well, plus occasionally a pair of Least Bitterns. > -- > Cole DiFabio > -- Cole DiFabio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]