I had the opportunity to bird Metzger Marsh, Magee Marsh and a few other roads in that area yesterday as I'd worked for 3 days previous in Ann Arbor Michigan. Obvious to the fact that spring migration had passed, I thought it might be interesting to visit any way. My first stop was Metzger and I saw Baltimore orioles, common terns, trumpetor Swans, swallows galore. I did however see the Glaucous Gull that Kenn Kaufman had posted June 15th in Ohio rare bird alert. Another neat fine was a family of Common Moorhens. While my photo is not very good, you can see make out probably 5 or 6 chicks. My next stop was Veller Road. Besides a couple of Kestrels, a bald eagle, what I found the most interesting was a wet boggy area that contained at least 60 Great Egrets. This was the place that my cousin David Raines and I had seen the Wilson's Phalarope a couple of years ago. My next stop was Magee and this was extremely eerie...I was totally alone on the boardwalk. Usually surrounded by hundreds and indeed the birding was meager, I still saw warbling vireos, yellow warblers, heard a couple of prothonarys, a yellow billed cuckoo, 553 robins, 614 Common grackles and 711 Red wing Blackbirds. Oh yeah, I was also joined by 100 or so biting flies and mosquitos. Regardless, it was still an interesting visit with 46 species in all. Dan Kendrick
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