Magee Marsh day 3 and Maumee Bay State Park 5/7/2018

Made it out birding today, we hit the Maumee Bay State Park boardwalk first. Not a lot of action. Did see some cowbirds, rose-breasted grosbeaks, goldfinches, black capped chickadees and nuthatches near the feeder at the start of the trail.

Magee Marsh was also slow, by comparison, today. Highlights included: Great Horned owl baby on the Estuary Trail. White-eye Vireo and a Brown Thrasher, both also on the Estuary Trail.

1. Myrtle Warbler
2. Palm Warbler
3. Chestnut-sided Warbler
4. Bay-breasted Warbler
5. Tennessee Warbler
6. Nashville Warbler
7. Warbling Vireo
8. White-eyed Vireo
9. Yellow Warbler
10. Blackburnian Warbler
11. Black Throated Green Warbler
12. Prothonotary Warbler
13. Northern Waterthrush
14. Common Yellowthroat
15. Northern Parula
16. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
17. Nuthatch
18. Black-capped Chickadee
19. GoldFinch
20. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
21. Baltimore Oriole
22. Red-winged Blackbird
23. Eastern Pheobe
24. Eastern Kingbird
25. Bald Eagle
26. Northern Cardinal
27. Blue Jay
28. Great Blue Heron
29. Great Egret
30. Herring Gull
31. Double Crested Commorant
32. Tree Swallow
33. Barn Swallow
34. Purple Martin
35. Brown Thrasher
36. Woodcock
37. Catbird
38. Common Nighthawk
39. Chirping Sparrow
40. House Sparrow
41. Gray Cheeked Thrush
42. Swainson's Thrush
43. Hermit Thrush
44. Great Horned Owl 
45. Sandhill Crane (fly-over)

Magee Marsh and Ottawa Auto Drive 5-5-2018

Another great day (May 5, 3018) birding. Went to the boardwalk and estuary trail at Magee Marsh and did the auto drive at Ottawa.

Managed a couple new birds for the year.

Highlights were the Sora on the Magee boardwalk and a Common Gallinule (Moorhen) on the Ottawa Auto Drive. Also we saw some Blandings Turtles on the Estuary Trail

The warm weather had plenty of critters out, frogs, snakes, muskrats and gnats!

1. Yellow Warbler
2. Cape-may Warbler
3. Myrtle Warbler (Yellow rumped)
4. Black and White Warbler
5. Blackburnian Warbler
6. Nashville Warbler
7. Northern Parula
8. Chesnut Sided Warbler
9. Magnolia Warbler
10. Black-Throated Green Warbler
11. Palm Warbler
12. Bay-Breasted Warbler
13. American Redstart
14. Ovenbird
15. Prothonotary Warbler
16. Common Yellowthroat
17. Warbling Vireo
18. Rusty Black Bird
19. Swainsons Thrush
20. Grey Cheeked Thrush
21. Hermit Thrush
22. House Wren
23. Bald Eagle
24. Canada goose
25. Cardinal
26. American Robin
27. Blue Jay
28. Tundra Swan
29. Red-winged Black Bird
30. Pied Billed Grebe
31. Coot
32. Catbird
33. Eastern Screech Owl
34. Tree Swallow
35. Barn Swallow
36. Double Crested Cormarant
37. Ruby Crowned Kinglet
38. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
39. Common Tern
40. White Throated Sparrow
41. White Crowned Sparrow
42. Clay Colored Sparrow
43. Red Bellied Woodpecker
44. Hairy Woodpecker
45. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
46. Green Heron
47. Great Blue Heron
48. Great Egret
49. Snowy Egret