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The boardwalk at Magee Marsh is legendary.  The seven acres of swampy woods that it wends through are hallowed ground to any birder that has visited and to many that only aspire to. The volume and variety of wood-warblers that are regularly seen in spring migration there rival or best anywhere else in the world [...]

When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site.  But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds and geese and egrets and swans and rails the best bet is the famed Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along State Route 2 in Oak Harbor, Ohio.  Together with Cedar Point and West [...]

It is not every day that one gets a taste of Cape May while at Magee Marsh.  In fact, this might be the beginning of some kind of birding black hole that sucks all of the birding world into a single spot (though it feels that way right now with nearly 1,000 birders having gathered [...]

I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in.  Instead of talking on the cell phone, singing along to the radio or do other activities that drivers everywhere do to stave off boredom I decided to grab my camera and document my trip from the eastern edge [...]

By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio.  Kind of.  Mostly.  Why would I not be wholeheartedly gung-ho about going to what is unanimously and resoundingly considered an excellent, fun, exciting, star-studded, bird-filled, [...]

I just got back from an all-too-brief exposure to the Biggest Week in American Birding, and all I can tell you is that you’ve got to get to Ohio! Despite highly inclement weather, including an unexpected tornado scare, Magee Marsh has been overrun by spring migrants en route to the great Boreal forest. I was [...]

Early May is a key portion of the calendar if you are a North American birder. This season may even have resonance for those of you outside the ABA area, but if you’re within in, you lick your lips (figuratively, I’m sure) all winter awaiting the arrival of spring migrants. Well, early May in America [...]

My recent trip to Ohio was nothing less than revelatory for me. Not only did I have an incredible time at the 2009 Midwest Birding Symposium but I also gained a new appreciation for the natural beauty of the Buckeye State. The biggest surprise in terms of the latter was definitely Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge; [...]

On the weekend of September 17 to 20, 2009, many hundreds of bird watchers will gather at Lakeside, Ohio for what will surely be the highlight of the birding year… That’s right! Our friends at Bird Watcher’s Digest and The Ohio Ornithological Society have been hard at work to make the 2009 Midwest Birding Symposium [...]