Birding at Magee Marsh

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Well, this blog is usually for our travels, but today we enjoyed early morning birding with fellow Marriage Encounter couples.

This is the easiest way to get the photos to you. The list below is what we saw, and maybe you did too!

The fish dinner at Jolly Roger was marvelous, and the accommodations great - thank you Ron and Mary Jo. We were so glad Don & Carolyn and Rick could join us. Great place!

We were VERY VERY lucky to get in the 3 hours that we did on the Boardwalk, with the rain looking so threatening. It's still thundering as I write this.

For those who left right away, Fells, Grimes, Mohlmasters, & Rymans (with very knowledgeable Nicole!!) walked around the Visitor Center - and met up with Beth again. Sadly, the Center was closed for remodeling!!

Jenn and Brett were heading back to the boardwalk last thing we saw, making the best of a baby-sitting day!



We hope this opened up an exciting new door of adventure for you. Keep your binoculars handy. As a lovely calendar tells us "Adventure is not outside yourself. It is within."

*Marks the photos that David took:



Canada Goose by the zillions

Mallards



Herring Gulls

Double-crested cormorants

4 American White Pelicans*

Great Blue Herons

Great Egrets

Cattle egrets



Bald Eagle*

Northern Flicker



Eastern Wood Pewee

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher*

Eastern Kingbird*

Blue-gray gnatcatcher



Philadelphia vireo*



Purple Martin*

Tree Swallow

Barn Swallow*



Gray catbird*

Gray-cheeked thrush*

Swainson’s thrush

American Robin

Cedar Waxwing*



Baltimore oriole*

Red-winged blackbird

Brown-headed cowbird

Common grackle

Starlings



Black-and-white warbler

Prothonotary warbler*

Common Yellowthroat

American Redstarts – female only*

Yellow warbler*

Chestnut-sided warbler

Canada Warbler*

Wilson’s Warbler*

Philadelphia vireo* (NEW LIFE BIRD FOR US)



Northern Cardinal

Indigo buntings



Yellow-billed cuckoo* (NEW LIFE BIRD FOR US)



Eastern Screech owl* in tiny hole up high, pointed out by young Mennonite man



GIANT BULLFROG*

SNAKES*

a “pesto” frog*

Turtles

A muskrat seen by Kevin & Raye

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