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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

15 April 2019 Birding Along Lake Erie's Shore

It was time for our annual birding outing to Lake Erie's shore.  We stopped at Old Woman Creek, Nickel Plate Beach, Sheldon Marsh, and the creatively named East Sandusky Bay MetroPark.  Enjoy the images.



Old Woman Creek was all quiet on the waterfront today.  Our usual often include ducks and egrets with maybe an eagle.  Today there were multiple blue birds in the field by parking.




Nickel Plate Beach offered no sightings.  We stopped briefly before moving on to Sheldon Marsh.  Our first stop at the pond gave us a sighting of turtles plus a kingfisher.



It was a good day for ducks on the marsh.




Turtles doing what turtles do.


Egrets were on the marsh in breeding plumage.



On the Lake Erie side of the trail, it was odd to see the Kraig K, a commercial fishing boat riding close to the shore with nets out.


Our trip to Sheldon Marsh usually includes one or more eagle sightings.  We were both wondering if we would be shut out until we made our last stop at Erie Metroparks' East Sandusky Bay Park.  We spotted three.  I captured a weak image of one.




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