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Nothing special to report ... just some notes
from the afternoon spent looking about for
shorebird habitat.
a brief survey of Metzger from the causeway
only under wind conditions precluding the use of
a scope, I had ...
Mute Swan - 4
Trumpeter Swan - 18
Mallard - 150+
Gadwall - 850+
Northern Pintail - 25
Northern Shoveler - 75
Green-winged Teal - 180+
Horned Grebe - 9
Pied-billed Grebe - 3
American Coot - 1850+
Great Egret - 2
Tree Swallow - 120
Ottawa and adjacent Lucas County fields
are mostly dry.
Park Colony Rd (just west of Reno on the Beach)
may be remembered by some for the good spring
shorebirding there in the 90's. Tiling in 2002
reduced flooding of the fields substantially. There
was enough standing water yesterday to attract ...
Wood Duck - 12
Gadwall - 9
Mallard - 90
American Black - 12
Blue-wiged Teal - 2
American Wigeon - 135
Northern Pintail - 4
Bonaparte's Gull - 4
Ring-billed Gull - 150
Killdeer - 4
perhaps worth a look over the next
week or two.
Benton-Carroll (just off Rt. 2) is not nearly
as waterlogged as has been the case the past
10 years. And the vegetation is as thick as
I have seen this early in the season. There were
only 8 Greater and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs present
yesterday.
When passing Turtle Creek (from the east)
or approaching (from the west) on Rt. 2, it may be
worth a moment of your time to turn off on Bodi
... the moist exposed soil there may attract some
plovers in the near future.
Otherwise, I have nothing else to recommend in the
immediate vicinity of the Ottawa/Magee complex.
This suggests, barred new flooding, that the planned
draw-down of a unit at Ottawa NWR and the executed
draw-down at Magee will be crucial for both shorebird
and birder alike this spring.
cheers
Vic Fazio
Shaker Heights, OH
PS> Lake Erie water levels in the Western Basin
are as high as I have seen since 1995-96.
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