Sep 5, 2006
Subject: Tuesday Birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:45:09 -0400
AM Birds seen in the marsh and on the boardwalk for September 5th, 2006
Warblers on the boardwalk
1. Tennessee - 2 (one first fall, one adult)
2. Nashville - 1 (first fall female)
3. Chestnut-sided - 2 (fall plumage females)
4. Magnolia - 7 (6 first fall; one adult)
5. Cape May - 3 - (one first fall female; one adult male & female)
6. Black-throated Blue - 7 (one first fall female, 3 adult females, 3
adult males )
7. Blackpoll - 1 (fall plumage)
8. Black & White - 3 (one male singing! & 2 females)
9. American Redstart - 6 (4 first fall males; 2 adult females)
10. Prothonotary - 1 adult male
11. Common Yellowthroat - 2 (1 adult male & female)
12. Canada - 1 adult female
Other species seen this morning
1. Wood Ducks
2. Mallards
3. Great Blue Herons
4. Great Egrets
5. Green Heron - 3
6. Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 adult up in the cattails!!!
7. Bald Eagle - 1 immature
8. Sharp-shinned Hawk - chasing warblers & other small birds!
9. Cooper's Hawk - attacked a mallard!
10. Sora - calling early off the causeway
11. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 in the marsh
12. Herring Gulls
13. Ring-billed Gulls
14. Mourning Dove
15. Downy Woodpecker - 4
16. N. Flicker - 1
17. Eastern Wood Pewee - 4 still singing!!
18. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 at east end of boardwalk again!
19. Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
20. Warbling Vireo - 9
21. Philadelphia Vireo - 3 (nice looks up-close too!)
22. Red-eyed Vireo - 7
23. House & Carolina Wren - 1 each
24. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
25. Swainson's Thrush - 4
26. American Robin - 5
27. Gray Catbird - 13
28. N. Mockingbird - 1 (very rare the for Magee Marsh boardwalk)
29. Brown Thrasher - 1
30. E. Starlings - many
31. Song Sparrow - 2
32. Northern Cardinal - many
33. Red-winged Blackbirds - flocks were small today!
34. Common Grackle - flocks were small today!
35. Baltimore Oriole - 2
36. American Goldfinch - 2
37. House Finch - 3 at feeders.
38. House Sparrow - many at feeders.
Mary L. Warren
ODNR-Division of Wildlife
Naturalist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
13229 W. SR 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449
419-898-0960 #31
419-898-4017 Fax
Sep 6, 2006
Subject: Wednesday birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:14:07 -0400
1. Peregrine Falcon - 8:45 am flying around both the wildlife beach and
Crane Creeks beach. Finally landed on top of dead branch near the
bathroom house.
It stayed for about 10 minutes then
flew towards Ottawa NWR along the beach.
Warblers at or near the boardwalk 9:00 am to 11:00 am
1. Nashville - 1
2. Chestnut-sided - 3
3. Magnolia - 6
4. Cape May - 2 females
5. B.T. Blue - 1 female
6. Yellow-rumped - 2
7. Blackburnian - 1 female
8. Bay-breasted - 5 (one adult male; nice!)
9. Blackpoll - 7
10. Black & White - 2
11. A. Redstart - 4 (one adult male; 1st adult male of the fall)
12. N. Waterthrush - 3
13. C. Yellowthroat - 3 (one first fall male up-close eating mayflies)
14. Wilson's - 2 (one adult male)
Other birds seen at the Marsh
1. Phila, Warbling, & R.E. Vireo's
2. Caspian, Common, & Forster's Terns
3. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - killed a katydid and flew off with it!!!
4. Sora - walking in the marsh
5. Chimney Swift, Purple Martins, & Bank Swallows
6. Red-winged Blackbirds, Grackles, & Starlings in a huge flock
7. E. Wood Pewee's - singing everyday
8. Gray-cheeked & Swainson's Thrush - one each
9. Cedar Waxwings - many today
10. Brown Thrasher & several Gray Catbirds
11. Belted Kingfisher - caught a fish right in front of me!!
12. Carolina Wren - several singing today
13. Baltimore Orioles - 2 young males
14. Herring & Ring-billed Gulls
15. Great Blue + Green Herons & Great Egrets
16. Wood Ducks - males are looking better everyday!
17. Killdeer - only shorebird today and the Peregrine totally ignored
it!!
18. N. Cardinals and American Goldfinch
Mary L. Warren
ODNR-Division of Wildlife
Naturalist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
13229 W. SR 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449
419-898-0960 #31
419-898-4017 Fax
08/15/2002 Archived Entry:
"Land Not Managed for Shorebirds"
The wildlife agencies responsible for managing our natural resources have been bashed several times this year on the birding listserver. This week, it's about wetlands not managed for shorebirds. more>>
From Bill Whan...
After reading Bill Jones's interesting posting of earlier today, it
occurred to me that there may be other readers of this list who might be
in a position to manage property for shorebirds during migration.
Despite what you hear from some sources, managing wetlands for
shorebirds is not something for which one needs an advanced degree, not
something that requires exhaustive ongoing research, or something we
need to leave to the professionals--after all, professionals have done a
miserable job of it in Ohio.
You can learn a lot in a hurry by studying the first 26 pages of
Douglas Helmer's Shorebird Management Manual, a booklet sold by the
Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network--I think it's $13--at
, where some other resources are
offered. One of them, the Ducks Unlimited booklet entitled "Shorebird
Migrations: Fundamentals for Land Managers in the US" is not nearly so
useful, and big DU projects in Ohio like the diking of Metzger Marsh
don't argue for their devotion to these non-game species.
Readers of this list seem to have an intense interest in our one
species of hummingbird and its foraging needs during its stay with us,
and that's great. But Ohio has more species of shorebirds than it has
even of waterfowl or warblers, and few land managers give them even a
passing thought, even though helping them out needn't interfere with the
requirements of precious game species. Jones and the few others like him
deserve special praise for bucking the trend, and doing something to
offer these wild long-range migrants something other than fields of corn
and beans or diked duck impoundments on their way through Ohio.
Bill Whan
Columbus
From another listserver member...
I thank Bill Whan, somewhat belatedly I'm afraid, for his help and encouragement over the past several weeks. And I agree with him, perhaps without opening a can of invertebrates, that nearly all of the "management" of wetlands in Ohio is done for the sake of waterfowl hunting. The Helmers's manual Bill recommends is an excellent reference for anyone thinking about creating or managing wetlands for the benefit of migrating shorebirds.
Bill Jones
Canfield
My response
Being fairly new to birding, there's no way I'm knowledgable enough on this subject to comment about it, but I'm going to anyway and at least ask a question or two or three.
What part does money play in this? Hunting and fishing require the purchase of a license each year. How much money would be available for birding projects if everyone who wanted to bird over the age of 18 had to pay a 15 dollar annual license fee?
Ducks Unlimited is powerful, correct? They have a lot of members and a lot of money to influence decision making, right? Is there a birding special interest group in Ohio that is equal to DU? Does the American Birding Association have that same kind of power? Or are there a bunch of small birding organizations that are too fragmented to get anything done as a group?
It would be hard to enforce the requirement of a birding license. Birders would purchase the license, because it would be the right thing to do, unless birders are tightwads. Based upon the clothing that a lot of birders wear in the field, the optics being carried, and the travel that birders do, it seems to me that many birders have money to give, and I'm positive a lot of birders do donate money to their favorite organizations, but is it enough? Is donating money to several small organizations better or worse than donating to one massive birding force?
If Ducks Unlimited did not exist, would these "mismanaged" wetlands still be present today, or would boat marinas, condos, and other concrete and steel structures reside in their place? It's already a tough battle to protect birding habitat from development, and with the recent decisions made by the Nature Conservancy, it could be harder.
What does a birder do? Should I focus energy and money on wetlands that already appear to be saved from development but are not managed for shorebirds? Should my attention go towards protecting existing forests, savannas, and grasslands from becoming another housing development, golf course, or mall? Or should energies be directed at land purchases with the intent of creating wetlands, grasslands, etc.? Sure, answering "yes" to all of the above would be nice, but I think each birder has to pick their battle and focus on that one item.
john
Sep 11, 2006
Subject: Monday Birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:01:57 -0400
Boardwalk birds till 12 noon
1. Tenn. Warbler - 1
2. N. Parula - 1
3. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2
4. Magnolia Warbler - 2
5. Cape May Warbler - 2
6. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
7. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
8. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
9. Bay-breasted - 4
10. Blackpoll - 5
11. Black & White - 2
12. American Redstart - 6
13. Ovenbird - 2
14. Northern Waterthrush - 1
15. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
16. Warbling Vireo - 1
17. Wood Thrush - 1 new for the fall
18. Swainson's Thrush - 2
19. Eastern Wood Pewee - 3
20. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
21. Least Flycatcher - 1 new for the fall ; seen by Paul
22. Eastern Phoebe - 2
Mary L. Warren
ODNR-Division of Wildlife
Naturalist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
13229 W. SR 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449
419-898-0960 #31
419-898-4017 Fax
Sep 10, 2006
Subject: Magee Marsh Birds for Sunday morning
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:19:51 -0400
Boardwalk birds seen by John & Paul from BSBO, Chris from Magee Marsh,
Denise & her Mom from Pittsburgh, Mona & Sarah from Back to the Wild
Barb & Dan who are local birders.
1. Northern Parula - one
2. Cape May Warbler - many
3. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1
4. Northern Waterthrush - 1
5. Tennessee Warbler - 1
6. American Redstart - several
7. Blackpoll - several
8. Bay-breasted Warbler - several
9. Ovenbird - one
10. Common Yellowthroat - 1
11. Magnolia Warbler - 3
12. Black & White Warbler - 3
13. Yellow-rumped Warbler - several
14. Warbling Vireo - heard many saw 2
15. Red-eyed Vireo - many
16. Philadelphia Vireo -1
17. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1
18. Eastern Wood Pewee - several
19. Eastern Phoebe - 1
20. Black-capped Chickadee - 1
21. Bald Eagle - 3
22. Grackles, Starlings, & Red-winged Blackbirds
23. Carolina Wren - heard two
Mary L. Warren
Sep 9, 2006
Subject: Saturday Birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 13:58:44 -0400
Warblers seen by the fall warbler birding class on the boardwalk
1. Nashville - 1
2. Tennessee - 5
3. Chestnut-sided - 4
4. Magnolia - 6
5. Cape May - 3
6. Yellow-rumped - 1
7. Bay-breasted - 3
8. Blackpoll - 5
9. Black & White - 2
10. American Redstart - 3
11. Ovenbird - 2
12. Northern Waterthrush - 2
13. Common Yellowthroat - 3
14. Wilson's Warbler - 1
Other species seen in the am
1. Red-eyed Vireo - saw many
2. Warbling Vireo - saw two
3. Philadelphia Vireo - saw one
4. Swainson's Thrush - saw two
5. Gray-cheeked Thrush - heard one
6. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - heard one
7. Baltimore Oriole - 2
8. Bald Eagle - 1 adult
9. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
10. Great Egret - 1
11. Great Blue Heron - 1
12. Chimney Swift - 1
13. Purple Martins - several
14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1
15. Belted Kingfisher - 1
16. Downy Woodpecker - 4
17. Eastern Wood Pewee -
18. Northern Flicker - 1
19. Black-capped Chickadee - 1 (rare for boardwalk)
20. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (seen by two men later in the morning.
21. Northern Cardinal - 1
Mary L. Warren
Sep 14
Subject: Thursday birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:35:34 -0400
Boardwalk Warblers & other birds seen by birders today
1. Tennessee - 3
2. Orange-crowned - 1
3. Nashville - 1
4. Northern Parula - 1
5. Yellow - 1st year male LATE BIRD!!!
6. Chestnut-sided - 2
7. Magnolia - 5
8. Cape May - 3
9. Black-throated Blue - 3
10. Yellow-rumped - 4
11. Blackburnian - 2
12. Pine -1
13. Bay-breasted - 3
14. Blackpoll - 3
15. Black & White - 5
16. American Redstart - 3
17. Ovenbird - 1
18. Northern Waterthrush - 1
19. Common Yellowthroat - 4
20. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 seen early in a.m.
21. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
22. Philadelphia Vireo - 3
23. Warbling Vireo - 2
24. Red-eyed Vireo - 5
25. Carolina, House, & two Marsh Wrens
26. Swainson's & Wood Thrush
27. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2
28. Belted Kingfisher - 1
29. Cedar Waxwings & Gray Catbirds
30. Downy & N. Flicker
31. Bald Eagle & Cooper's Hawk
32. Great & two Snowy Egrets
33. E.W. Pewee, E. Phoebe, & G.C. Flycatcher
34. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
35. Mallard & Wood Duck
Mary L. Warren
Sep 14 ONWR Magee
Subject: Magee Marsh W/A and Ottawa NWR
From: "Black Swamp Bird Observatory"
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:11:45 -0400
I made the trip to Magee and Ottawa today to check out the birds for this
weekend's BSBO walks. Birds were good but not plentiful. Highlights from the
boardwalk included Tennessee Warbler, Black-Throated Blue Warbler, and
beautiful Yellow-Throated Vireos. Black-Throated Blues are my personal favorite
in warblers and seeing a full-color male this time of year is particularly
rewarding. But the brilliant yellow of the vireos was especially delightful.
Also of interest was a game of tag between an Eastern Wood Pewee and a Great
Crested Flycatcher. Not too sure the Great Crested was all that interested,
though.
The highlight at Ottawa was two immature Little Blue Herons and five Snowy
Egrets. Shorebird habitat was non-existent and, therefore, not even a single
Killdeer. Several Marsh Wrens were singing across from the viewing tower.
Join us tomorrow on the Magee Marsh Boardwalk and Saturday at Ottawa for the
BSBO walks. We meet at 8:00 am each day in the parking lot at BSBO. We will be
back in time on Saturday for the Fall Warbler Program with local "Big Sit"
legend Tom Bartlett 12:30 pm at the BSBO office.
See you somewhere
Paul Sherwood
Naturalist
Black Swamp Bird Observatory_
Sep 15
Subject: Magee Marsh birds for Friday
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:56:15 -0400
Warblers
1. Nashville
2. Magnolia
3. Cape May
4. Yellow-rumped
5. Black-throated Green
6. Blackburnian
7. Western Palm - in bush by bird center (first for the fall)
8. Bay-breasted
9. Blackpoll
10. Black & White
11. American Redstart
12. Ovenbird
13. Common Yellowthroat
Other species today
1. Snowy & Great Egrets
2. Great Blue Herons
3. Bald Eagle
4. Killdeer
5. Greater Yellowlegs -1 flew over the bird center
6. Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 flew over the bird center
7. Ring-billed & Herring Gulls
8. Caspian Terns
9. Chimney Swift
10. Belted Kingfisher - by bird center
11. Red-bellied, Downy, & N. Flicker
12. Eastern Wood Pewee & Eastern Phoebe
13. Warbling, Red-eyed, & Phila. Vireo's
14. Blue jay
15. Purple Martin, Tree & Barn Swallows
16. Carolina & House Wren
17. Swainson's Thrush & A. Robin
18. E. Starling & Cedar Waxwing
19. White-throated Sparrow - first for the fall
20. N. Cardinal, & R.b. Grosbeak
21. Indigo Bunting - female (near bird center; first for the fall)
22. C. Grackle, Red-winged Blackbird, & A. Goldfinch.
Mary L. Warren
Sep KI census
Subject: Kelleys Island monthly census - 9/15/06
From: "Tom Bartlett"
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:11:04 -0400
Participants: Tom Bartlett, Vic Fazio, & Pat Hayes
Date: 9/15/06
Time: 0700-1245 EST
Weather: Overcast, North-northwest winds 5-12 mph, Temp in 60's
Notes:
20 species of warbler were observed, no shorebirds, and only 4 individual
swallows observed. The Red-headed Woodpecker observation was the first on a
census in the last 9 years.
246 Double-crested Cormorant
13 Great Blue Heron
151 Canada Goose
8 Wood Duck
1 American Black Duck
201 Mallard
2 Green-winged Teal
2 Unidentified ducks
11 Turkey Vulture
1 Bald Eagle (3rd year)
2 Cooper's Hawk
16 Bonaparte's Gull
446 Ring-billed Gull
106 Herring Gull
7 Caspian Tern
11 Mourning Dove
4 Eastern Screech-Owl
2 Chimney Swift
3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
34 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
15 Northern Flicker
6 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Warbling Vireo
1 Philadelphia Vireo
7 Red-eyed Vireo
30 Blue Jay
46 American Crow
2 Horned Lark
4 Barn Swallow
4 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
21 Carolina Wren
2 House Wren
14 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
57 Veery
35 Swainson's Thrush
4 Thrush species?
121 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
145 European Starling
122 Cedar Waxwing
1 Tennessee Warbler
3 Nashville Warbler
2 Northern Parula
1 Yellow Warbler
2 Chestnut-sided Warbler
19 Magnolia Warbler
4 Cape May Warbler
3 Black-throated Blue Warbler
16 Yellow-rumped Warbler
7 Black-throated Green Warbler
8 Blackburnian Warbler
8 Western Palm Warbler
2 Bay-breasted Warbler
53 Blackpoll Warbler
2 Black-and-white Warbler
12 American Redstart
2 Ovenbird
3 Common Yellowthroat
2 Wilson's Warbler
2 Canada Warbler
121 Warbler species?
1 Scarlet Tanager
67 Northern Cardinal
3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
6 Indigo Bunting
21 Chipping Sparrow
8 White-throated Sparrow
2 Bobolink
1946 Common Grackle
1 Baltimore Oriole
38 House Finch
53 American Goldfinch
11 House Sparrow
4388 Individuals
80 Species
Tom Bartlett
Sep 15-16 Birds
Subject: Friday and Saturday Birds
From: "Black Swamp Bird Observatory"
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:31:22 -0400
BSBO Friday and Saturday morning Bird walks
Saturday morning, September 15, 2006: Magee Marsh Boardwalk
Friday was a cool, cloudy day with a very high sky which made it difficult to
identify birds overhead. Highlights included Philadelphia Vireo, Magnolia
Warbler, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak and White-Throated
Sparrow. Magnolias were mostly in fall plumage though we did see one brightly
colored male. The Philadelphia Vireos were very cooperative, posing on branches
in fairly open areas. A non-bird highlight was a curled-up young Black Rat
Snake, a beautiful ebony-colored reptile looking too cold to move.
Saturday's walk at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge was a little "birdier".
Nashville Warblers, Magnolia Warblers, Blackpoll Warblers, and a Canada Warbler
were seen. We heard a Yellow-Breasted Chat, some of us viewed it briefly, but
like many of the fall migrants, it didn't seem willing to com out into the
open. The only shorebirds seen were Killdeers, one Lesser Yellowlegs, and two
Black-Bellied Plovers (flyovers). Two immature Little Blue Herons were seen in
the impoundment across from the estuary along with several Snowy Egrets. Also
seen in the impoundment were Blue and Green-Winged Teal, Northern Shovelers,
and American Wigeon. As well as a lone Trumpeter Swan, In the area near the
southern impoundment Marsh Wren, a Black-Crowned Night Heron, and a Lincoln's
Sparrow were seen. Non-bird finds included Leopard Frogs and a young Eastern
Fox Snake.
Remember we do it all again next weekend (Friday on the Magee Marsh Boardwalk,
Saturday at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge). Meet in the BSBO parking lot at
8:00 AM either day.
Paul Sherwood
portage county trees swallows
From: Bob Faber
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:29:39 -0700 (PDT)
On Friday, September 15 at about 8:45 am there a
maelstrom of 250-300 tree swallows and a very few barn
swallows flying very low, swooping and hovering inches
over a clover hayfield located in Hiram Township,
Portage County. There were few, if any birds, over
the adjacent cow pasture, soy beans or corn fields.
The hayfield was the focus of the frenzied activity.
At times as many as 100 swallows wound perch on a
strand of barbed wire surrounding the adjacent
pasture. There was a single observation of a single
bobolink perched with the constantly changing birds on
the wire.
At 12:30 pm the flock was was still active at a higher
altitude and were mostly gone by mid-afternoon.
Sep 18
Subject: Magee Marsh Birds for Monday
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:26:06 -0400
Warblers on the boardwalk 9 to 10:30 am
1. Magnolia - 4 (2 adults 2 young)
2. American Redstart - 1 female
3. Black & White - 1 female
4. Ovenbird - 1
5. Wilson's - 1 adult male
6. Blackpoll - 4
7. Bay-breasted - 3 (2 males 1 female)
8. Cape May - 1 first fall female
9. Common Yellowthroat - 1 female
10. Black-throated Blue - 3 males
Other birds at the marsh
1. Red-eyed Vireo - 2
2. Warbling Vireo - 1
3. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
4. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3
5. Eastern Phoebe - 2
6. Swainson's Thrush - 4
7. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
8. American Robin - 4
9. Gray Catbird - 7
10. House Wren - 4
11. Carolina Wren - 1
12. White-throated Sparrow - 4
13. Caspian Terns
14. R.b. & Herring Gulls
15. Mallards & Wood Ducks
16. Great & Snowy Egrets
17. Great Blue & Green Heron
18. Grackles & Red-winged Blackbirds
19. House & American Goldfinch
Benton Carroll Road - huge flock (100+) of Brown-headed Cowbirds, two
American Kestrels & Horned Larks too.
Mary L. Warren
Sep 19
Subject: Tuesday birds at Magee Marsh
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:13:18 -0400
Warblers in the parking lot trees by the boardwalk
Seen by local birders from about 8 am to 10 am this morning!!!!
1. Orange-crowned
2. Prairie
3. N. Parula
4. Chestnut-sided
5. Magnolia
6. Cape May
7. B.t. Blue
8. B.t. Green
9. Yellow-rumped
10. Blackburnian
11. Blackpoll
12. Bay-breasted
13. Black & White
14. C. Yellowthroat
Other species seen in that general area
1. Yellow-billed Cuckoo's - several. Plus they watched an adult feed
it's young a Praying Mantis!!!!
2. Brown Thrasher - 1
3. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - east end of boardwalk
4. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - east end of boardwalk
5. Chimney Swifts
6. Red-eyed Vireos - many - east end of boardwalk
7. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
8. White-throated Sparrows - many - east end of boardwalk
9. Eastern Towhee's - 2 at the bird center.
10. Snowy & Great Egrets
11. Wood Ducks
12. Belted Kingfishers - 2
Mary L. Warren
Sep 19 p.m.
Subject: Magee Marsh Birds Tuesday evening
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:51:48 -0400
New Warblers since this morning (total for the day =18 species)
1. N. Waterthrush
2. Ovenbird
3. Nashville
4. Palm
Other new birds for the day
1. Northern Harrier - 2
2. Winter Wren - (1) nice look up-close!! First for the fall here!!!
3. Green Heron
Mary L. Warren
Magee Sep Census
Subject: Magee Marsh Bird Census for September
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:40:16 -0400
Bird Census from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
1. P.b. Grebe - 2
2. D.c.Cormorant - 4
3. G. Blue Heron - 10
4. Green Heron - 1
5. Great Egret - 7
6. Snowy Egret - 1
7. Canada Goose - 14
8. Mallard - 14
9. American Wigeon - 2
10. Wood Duck - 9
11. Turkey Vulture - 1
12. Bald Eagle - 1
13. Osprey - 2
14. C. Moorhen - 1
15. Herring Gull - 8
16. R.b. Gull - 12
17. Caspian Tern - 5
18. Mourning Dove - 18
19. Y.b. Cuckoo - 3
20. C. Swift -1
21. B. Kingfisher - 1
22. N. Flicker - 12
23. Downy Woodpecker - 8
24. Eastern Phoebe - 2
25. Y.b. Flycatcher -1
26. E. Wood Pewee - 5
27. Tree Swallow - 145
28. Purple Martin - 6 females
29. Blue jay - 2
30. B.c. Chickadee - 1
31. R.b. Nuthatch - 1
32. House Wren - 6
33. Carolina Wren - 6
34. Gray Catbird - 33
35. Brown Thrasher - 3
36. A. Robin - 41
37. Wood Thrush - 1
38. Swainson's Thrush - 17
39. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 5
40. R.C. Kinglet - 6
41. Cedar Waxwing - 5
42. E. Starling - 70
43. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
44. Red-eyed Vireo - 10
45. Philadelphia Vireo - 2
46. Warbling Vireo - 4
47. Black & White Warbler - 3
48. Tennessee Warbler - 1
49. Nashville Warbler - 1
50. Magnolia Warbler - 8
51. Cape May Warbler - 5
52. B.t. Blue Warbler - 4
53. B.t. Green Warbler - 1
54. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
55. Blackburnian Warbler - 1
56. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2
57. Bay-breasted Warbler - 3
58. Blackpoll - 32
59. Ovenbird - 1
60. C. Yellowthroat - 18
61. Wilson's Warbler - 1
62. Canada Warbler - 1
63. American Redstart - 7
64. Red-winged Blackbird - 109
65. C. Grackle - 30
66. Scarlet Tanager - 1 male
67. R.b. Grosbeak - 2
68. N. Cardinal - 33
69. Eastern Towhee - 2
70. White-throated Sparrow - 16
71. Song Sparrow - 5
72. Purple Finch - 1 female
73. A. Goldfinch - 13
74. House Sparrow - 10
These birds were counted from 5 different locations at Magee Marsh.
1. The two walking trails near the bird center.
2. The park road from the entrance at route 2 to the beginning of the
east end of the boardwalk.
3. The wildlife beach
4. The boardwalk
5. The beach ridge ( all of Crane Creek State Park)
Plus, we want to thank Jerry Stanley from Pennsylvania who assisted us
with the boardwalk count.
Mary L. Warren
Sep 25
Subject: Magee Marsh Birds for Monday 09/ 25/ 06
From: "Warren, Mary"
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:15:36 -0400
Magee Marsh Birds for Monday , September 25, 2006
1. Black & White Warbler
2. Northern Waterthrush
3. Ovenbird
4. Blackpoll
5. Western Palm Warbler
6. Black-throated Blue Warbler
7. Yellow-rumped Warbler
8. Common Yellowthroat
9. Blue-headed Vireo
10. Red-eyed Vireo
11. Philadelphia Vireo
12. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
13. Golden-crowned Kinglet
14. House Wren
15. Marsh Wren
16. Winter Wren
17. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
18. Eastern Wood Pewee
19. Eastern Phoebe
20. Gray Catbird
21. Swainson's Thrush
22. Gray-cheeked Thrush
23. American Robin
24. Northern Flicker
25. Downy Woodpecker
26. Caspian Tern
27. Ring-billed & Herring Gull
28. Bald Eagle
29. Great & Snowy Egret
30. Great Blue Heron
31. Mallard
32. Blue-winged Teal
33. Wood Duck
34. American Goldfinch
35. Mourning Dove
36. White-throated Sparrow
37. House Sparrow
38. Red-winged Blackbird
39. Canada Geese
40. European Starling
Thanks to Dan & Barb for their bird list today plus a few other birders.
Mary L. Warren
Dec MBSP Purp Sand
Subject: Maumee Bay St Park, Purple Sandpiper
From: BLZWIEBEL AT AOL.COM
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:51:18 EST
Hi All,
This morning at approximately 7:30am Laura Stiefel and I discovered a Purple
Sandpiper on one of the short sections of break wall along the Lake Erie beach
at Maumee Bay St Park.
We crawled around on the icy rocks at water line to get an angle for a photo.
After taking a few images we retreated and left the bird resting, it never
budged while we were photographing. Later, after a few others arrived, we
could not relocate the bird.
There doesn't appear to be much in the way of Purple Sandpiper forage as the
rocks are pretty bare. I suggest the bird probably finished resting then went
in look of food. I've walked the rocks at Maumee Bay St Park many times this
time of year in hopes of finding a Purple Sandpiper......FINALLY!
Other interesting birds in the park today include a couple of Snow Buntings,
two Greater White-fronted Geese, Eastern Phoebe, Black-crowned Night Heron and
a Common Goldeneye that landed in the inland lake.
I had been seeing a few E. Meadowlarks but none today.
Yesterday in the back yard I had a Red-breasted Nuthatch, a Fox Sparrow, two
Rusty Blackbirds and two Golden-crowned Kinglets.
Good Birding!
Brian Zwiebel
Jan 7, 2007
Subject: Ottawa NWR waterfowl
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:30:51 -0500
On Saturday I visited Ottawa NWR and walked the various trails. It was
unseasonably warm for Ottawa so I wasn�t sure if the refuge would be
bird-plentiful. The trails closest to the Lake Erie shoreline were very
productive for waterfowl. This included 44 Snow Geese of which about half were
white phase and the rest blue. There were well over 100 individuals of Tundra
Swan, 4 Mute Swans and several banded Trumpeter Swans. Over 20 Northern
Pintails mixed in with Mallards, American Black Ducks, and Common Mergansers.
There were Great Black-backed Gulls mixed with the more common Ring-billed and
Herring. And of course Bald Eagles were plentiful with one tree having five
perched eagles and numerous others flying about. The wet woods near the visitor
center had many common songbirds as well. For the waterfowl, a long walk with
spotting scopes will probably be necessary for the best chance of observation.
(above from listserv)
Jan 7-10, 2007
Subject: Kelley's Island 1/7-10/07
From: Tom Bartlett
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:53:45 -0500
I am using the Winter Bird Atlas technique for numbers. If someone wants
more details, let me know. It was a little colder than it has been and
numbers of waterfowl seems down some. Passerines were also down some. I am
planning the monthly census on January 20. The Northern Mockingbird was
present every day in a multiflora rose field row behind the Quarry Condos.
This is only the third time I have seen one on the island and a winter
first.
1 Turkey Vulture
XXX Canada Goose
XXX Gadwall
5 American Wigeon
XX American Black Duck
XXX Mallard
1 Greater Scaup
2 Long-tailed Duck
XXXX Bufflehead
XXXX Common Goldeneye
XX Common Merganser
XXXX Red-breasted Merganser
2 Bald Eagle (1 adult, 1 second year bird)
2 Cooper's Hawk
XX Ring-billed Gull
XXX Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Mourning Dove
X Eastern Screech-Owl
X Great Horned Owl
X Red-bellied Woodpecker
X Downy Woodpecker
X Northern Flicker
X Blue Jay
XX American Crow
X Horned Lark
XX Black-capped Chcikadee
X Brown Creeper
XX Carolina Wren
X Winter Wren
XX Golden-crowned Kinglet
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
X Hermit Thrush
XX American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
XX European Starling
X Yellow-rumped Warbler
XX White-throated Sparrow
XX Dark-eyed Junco
X Snow Bunting
XX Northern Cardinal
XX House Finch
X American Goldfinch
XX House Sparrow
44 species observed
Dec 30. 2006
I saw a Purple Sandpiper along the lakeshore today at Metzgers Marsh. A fellow birder named Chris spotted the bird. It was right where the beach starts along the dike. It was eating the moss from the rocks. We watched the bird for over 20 minutes. I also noted over 100+ Snow Bunting with at least 2 Lapland Longspurs in a large flock in the field on the left immediately when you turn off Rt#2 heading towards the lake.
(TNA posting)
