Diane & I had a very rewarding day at Long Point where we found many
spring migrants. Tundra Swans are plentiful at Big Creek & in open
water on the Lake on the south side of the Causeway. At the Port Rowan
wetlands (newly de-commissioned sewage lagoons) we found a pair of
Killdeer. On the East Quarter Line south of Lakeshore Road we came
across the Bald Eagle's nest where one of the parents took off from its
perch to give us a very close view of its flight westward.
As we drove across the Causeway we observed hundreds of Tundra Swans on
a very small patch of open water where hundreds more gather at night. A
Turkey Vulture hovered overhead on the Causeway where 3 Canvas Backs
were found at the mouth of Big Creek. On the Front Road (County Rd. 42)
we found two adult Sandhill Cranes just west of Lee Brown's farm on the
south side at the edge of a wood lot.
Farther on Front Road west were the last remnants of the flocks of
Horned Larks which over-winter here. Farther to the west we entered the
Jackson Gunn Old Growth Forest Preserve (Lower Side Road, between Conc.
4 -5, north of Houghton) where we found the Red Headed Woodpeckers
vigorously carving a hole in an ancient beech tree.
Many more birds were found at feeders and on the roadsides; sparrows,
song, tree, whitethroats, house; blackbirds - grackles and red-wings;
woodpeckers - red bellied, downy, hairy and red headed.
Roy Allen
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