What I’ve been doing this week

Watching

We have watched one from Season 1, one from Season 2.

Reading

Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong. Read. Didn’t like.

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud. Reading. Liking.

Birds and Birders

Warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio, which is famous for warblers. We were there Thursday.

Birder on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh.

Lovesick Red-Winged Blackbird.

Distant deer and White Pelicans.

White Pelicans flying.

More birders on the boardwalk. Looking about the same as they do every May during bird migration.
Luckily it was only crowded part for a little while, mostly pretty calm.

Refrigerator Magnet Update

Bird magnets from the Netherlands, Missouri, Costa Rica, Ohio, and the Pacific Northwest.
Species shown: several owls, hummingbird, cardinal, cranes, goldfinch, and thunderbirds.

Blog post and all photos © 2024 mae sander.

Shared with Eileen's Saturday Critters and Deb's Sunday Salon.

Magee Marsh 2023

Spring mmigration at Magee Marsh on the shore of Lake Erie east of Toledo is a remarkable birding magnet. Large numbers of bird species migrate through this small wetland preserve each May, attracting birders from many parts of the country. We usually spend at least one day enjoying the beautiful woods and fantastic birds at the marsh (and I have posted about many of these birding trips). Beautiful weather made this year’s birding day even more special.

My Prettiest Birds

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Wood Duck

An eagle, not far from the nest.

Two eaglets in the nest.

Rose-Breasted Grossbeak

Scarlet Tanager

Screech Owl

Nesting Yellow Warbler

Another Yellow Warbler. Well over 30 species of warblers are commonly seen at Magee Marsh.

Baltimore Oriole

For detailed information on visiting Magee Marsh, and about the annual birding festival held there, see “Birding Magee Marsh,” the official website of the wildlife area.

Birders in their native habitat

Amish and Mennonite communities in Ohio have many active birders.
We saw this group of young men several times as we walked the boardwalk and the trails.
For information about Amish/Mennonite birders and their continuation of phone hotlines no longer
needed by the rest of the birding community, see this: “Where have all the rare bird alerts gone?”

Photos © 2023 mae sander

 

Birding at Magee Marsh

 

Seeing an owl always makes a birding day into a good birding day.
We spent much of Tuesday at Magee Marsh on the shore of Lake Erie.

There were swallows everywhere.

This woodpecker was looking out of his hole.

The woodpecker soon flew away.

A Yellow Warbler: one of many.
Numerous species of warbler migrate through Magee Marsh each May.

A Tennessee warbler.

A family of Killdeer chicks.

A Baltimore Oriole.

 An Eastern Kingbird.

A Magnolia Warbler.

Other birders at the marsh.

 More birders.

All photos © 2022 mae sander

Wordless Wednesday: Birds Flying

-- Painted by Monet.

Photos by Len from Flickr.
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If you see this blog post elsewhere it's been stolen.
Wordless Wednesday a day early!

Warblers, Plovers, Birdwatchers, and a Sleepy Owl

Trying to wake up?

Golden Plovers and Caspian Terns at Howard Marsh Metropark, Toledo, Ohio

Numerous warblers migrate through Magee Marsh on Lake Erie in May.

Weekend Birding

Today we spent several hours at Magee Marsh near Toledo and around an hour from us, and Len took lots of photos.
It's world famous among birders for the spring migration. Right now is the big week of the entire year there.

At Magee Marsh today: one of the many species of warbler that stops there on the way north for the summer.

Yesterday, a bit east of town, we saw this sandhill crane among the spent dandelions.