Hi All,
Northwest Ohio along Lake Erie is a fabulous migrant trap where birds stop to fuel up before the long flight across the lake. Early May brings hundreds of thousands of birds and almost as many birders.
This was the boardwalk Saturday morning. No matter the temps were in the low 50's with an intermittent drizzle, we were all there to see the birds, especially the colorful warblers.
Many of the birds were so focused on feeding that they ignored the people, allowing us to take pictures with our cell phones.
Black throated green warbler
palm warbler
Red winged blackbird showing off his colors.
Cape May warbler
Magnolia warbler
Chestnut sided warbler
and a yellow warbler.
The visitor center of the nearby Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge had this great quote on the wall. ". . .birds are by right not the property merely of the people alive today, but the property of the unborn generations whose belongings we have no right to squander." -Theodore Roosevelt
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there.
Love,
Sandy & Carl
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