Magee Marsh

Birded Magee Marsh today, the most fabulous birding experience of my life, REALLY!

The board walk is 0.6 mile and loaded with warblers, vireos, thrushes, and orioles.
18 species of warbler, Blackburnian, Magnolia, Yellow, Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Bay-breasted, Chestnut-sided, Nashville, Ovenbird, Yellowthroat, Louisiana and Northern Waterthrush, Black and White, Prothonotary. Redstart, Parula, Palm, and Yellow-rumped...
All the thrushes... Veery, Gray-cheeked, Swainson's, Hermit, Wood, and Robin...
Alvin got a life bird with the American Woodcock...

The great thing was the closeness of the birds, within a fingertips reach sometimes and the numbers of each species was terrific.

Also Baltimore Oriole, Red-eyed and Warbling Vireo, Ruby-crowned and Golden Crowned Kinglet, Flicker, Downy, Red-bellied, and Piliated Woodpeckers, Tree and Barn Swallows.

Canada Geese had fuzzy goslings everywhere

must have started laying eggs in the snow...

Flycatchers included Least, Yellow-bellied, and Eastern Kingbird.

All this and Lake Erie, too.
I saw several fly overs of gull and tern, but never managed to get a good look, too busy watching warblers.






Meet a nice couple from Columbus, Sheila and Dale, shared some great birds. Invited them to bird Texas.