May 05 2011
Time For Warblers!
Today begins the “Biggest Week in American Birding,” a festival that celebrates warbler migration in northwestern Ohio, May 5-15.
There are plenty of birds to see! As warblers migrate north to Canada they usually stop on the coast of Lake Erie to refuel before crossing the water. The northwestern corner of Ohio becomes a huge birding hotspot.
This attracts birders from around the country and around the world. Many of us will visit the Port Clinton area in the next 10 days, including many Pittsburghers from the Three Rivers Birding Club.
We’ll visit The Boardwalk every morning at Magee Marsh (formerly Crane Creek Park). There in a copse of trees the warblers are so close you can practically touch them and the birders are so thick you meet old friends at every turn.
If you’re even mildly interested, it’s worth the trip. Click on the photo of the magnolia warbler to read more about the Biggest Week in American Birding.
I’ll see you at The Boardwalk this weekend.
(photo by Bobby Greene, taken at Magee Marsh in 2010)
Good parents! Both Dori and Louie are feeding the babies at the same time!
Met Bob Greene at our Todd Bird Club…nice guy and wonderful photos…hope we can get to Magee Marsh sometime…sounds like a wonderful place…any good in mid-June or is that too late?
Alas. Mid-June is too late.