New bird species that appeared this week included:
Little Gull, Great Egret, American Bittern, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Brown Creeper, Cliff Swallow, both Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal, Eastern Meadowlark, Hermit Thrush, House Wren, and the first wave of warblers~~Black-throated Green, Nashville, Palm, and Pine. 

Wild Flowers Blooming now are:
In wilder places in Erie and Crawford counties dozens of other flowers bloomed, including Harbinger of Spring, Hairy Bittercress, Persian Speedwell, Bloodroot, Yellow Dog-tooth Violet, Red Trillium, Blue Cohosh, Spring Cress, Golden Saxifrage, Plantain-leaved sedge, Squirrel Corn, Dutchman’s Breeches, and Cut-leaf Toothwort.  

I'm running a bit late with the report due to the Easter Holiday and personal family time. I do hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! I sure did. 

If you have seen anything new this week let me know and photos are always welcome.
webeditor@presqueisleaudubon.org
Toni

Besides the birds shown above others report:

• Louisiana Waterthrushes along Six Mile Creek
  
• a leucistic Common grackle at a feeder on West Sixth Street
  
• and a golden eagle over Camp Notre Dame.
  

Last report I failed to mention the Pine Warbler seen at Pam and Bob's suet from 4/5/14 thru 4/8/14

And for those who try to keep track of wildflowers blooming now
Red maple, hepatica, violets, dandelion, mouse-eared chickweed, lesser celandine, marsh marigold, dead nettle and trout lilies. 

I want to thank everyone who is sending me bird reports while Jerry is away. You are terrific! thanks.
Take note below Linda reports a Male Baltimore Oriole so get your feeders cleaned and ready.
If you have anything to report just email me at webeditor@presqueisleaudubon.org
Enjoy,
Toni

And thanks also to Jerry's wife Linda for sending the following.
Happy spring! April is becoming a busy month of migration, courtship, and blooming.

• Purple martins are back from Brazil.
• There's at least one, maybe two, pairs of Cooper's hawks courting and nesting on PI.
• American wigeon
• 10 blue-winged teal
• A male oriole
• Barn swallow
• Swamp sparrow
• Savannah sparrow
• Northern mockingbird
• Hermit thrush
• Rusty blackbirds
• Eastern towhee
• Common loons, and horned grebes on the bay
• a Red-necked Grebe near Fairview.
  
• Bonaparte’s gull, greater and lesser black-backed gull, Caspian tern, and surf scoter.
  
• Lesser yellowlegs at Gull Point.
  
• For two weeks only, while yellow-bellied sapsuckers are here, it”s possible to find seven woodpecker species.
  

Other Nature notes:
Eastern spotted salamanders in vernal ponds.
Spring peepers, wood frogs, and bullfrogs calling in marshes and ponds.
Woodcock courtship, an extravagant aerial song and dance, in low wet places at dusk.
The first wildflowers have bloomed: coltsfoot, spring beauty, Pennsylvania bittercress and Skunk cabbage.