Date: 5/9/25 10:32 am From: WANG PEGGY <00000454f4164bea-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Marie Hickey, Toboso & Dillon fri morning
It was a chilly 40 degrees with some wind when I left Granville so I wasn’t sure how good the birding was going to be. I didn’t hike the entire Marie Hickey Trail, mostly just the oil pump roads. Ceruleans were singing but impossible to spot. Kentucky’s seemed to be everywhere unless one was just moving around a lot but I think I had at least four while I only heard one Hooded. I saw KYs cross the path and instantly disappear in 3 different places & they were singing regularly.
The big surprise was at Toboso Wetlands. As I was driving in and looking at all the flooding, I was thinking, this looks like perfect conditions for Prothonotary Warbler and darned if one of the first birds I heard when I got out of my car was a Prothonotary! I was able to track it down on the edge of the first pond then later it perched up higher in a tree to sing. I got some mediocre photos. It’s the first time I’ve seen that species in the Blackhand Gorge area. Once in a while, I’ll see one at Denison but they’re very uncommon there. I heard 2 Sandhill Cranes fly over the ponds while I was searching for the Prothonotary. Trumpeter Swans still there—with all the water plants, I couldn’t tell if they have cygnets yet but both adults were in the water near the nest but not on the nest.
The back road by Dillon is flooded so I continued to the beach to find the beach & the peninsula there completely underwater, even encroaching upon some of the concrete steps. Many Chimney Swifts and swallows were feeding low over the water so I took some time to sort through them finding everything except Cave and who knows, one might’ve been there but I wouldn’t have been able to pick it out at those distances. I picked up my FOY Cliff and Bank swallows. A few DC Cormorants were there as well.
At the horse camp, more ceruleans were singing but only gave flitting views. I did finally get good looks at a Yellow-throated Warbler which I’ve only heard so far!
Warblers
Prothonotary (Toboso)
Cerulean
Redstart
KY
Yellow-throated
Com YT
Yellow
Hooded
N Parula
Ovenbird
Sandhill Crane
Green Heron
Trumpeter Swan
Cliff, Tree, Rough-winged, Barn & Bank swallows
Chimney Swifts—many at Toboso & Dillon Beach
YT, Warbling, WE & RE Vireos
GC FC
E Phoebe
Scarlet Tanager
Peggy Wang
Granville
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