Time to look for warblers

Yesterday we got together with Mike and went to Magee Marsh where we met Joanna and spent an enjoyable day at Magee Marsh and Howard Marsh in Ohio.

It’s always nice getting a good look at a Bald Eagle nest. But the real highlight was the number and variety of warblers.

American Redstarts (left) were quite common as were Black-throated Green Warblers (right). Black-and-white Warblers were much less common.

We had at least one Blackburnian Warbler (left) and Cape May Warbler (center). Chestnut-sided were a little more common.

Prothonotary Warblers nest here, and while not overly common were present all morning.

Hearing and finding a Golden-winged Warbler (left) was exciting. Common Yellowthroats were extremely common.

There were a lot of other species of warblers, as well as other birds.

Looking up oftern turned up White Pelicans.

It’s always fun finding thrushes. We had Hermit Thrushes (shown above) and Veery.

Scarlet Tanagers are always fun to find.

Leaving Magee Marsh we headed over to Howard Marsh where we were looking for shorebirds.

Dunlin were abundant, numbering over a hundred.

Caspian Terns.

One of the hightlight at Howard Marsh are the nesting Black-necked Stilts. We were not disappointed.

Finding other birds brought our day total to 80 species of birds, not bad for an early May day.

More later.