6 Might 2025
In the present day I’m driving to Northwest Ohio to get my annual warbler repair at Magee Marsh Boardwalk. I’ll be there three days earlier than The Largest Week in American Birding on 9-18 Might 2025 to keep away from the crowds.
There are fairly a couple of birds I’ve missed up to now in Pittsburgh that I hope to see in Ohio together with prothonotary warbler and magnolia warbler pictured right here. Final yr my pre-Largest-Week journey was too early for peak migration however this yr my timing could also be good. Peak migration is 7-25 Might in northwestern Ohio.
To offer you a style of how shut the birds are at Magee Marsh Boardwalk, right here’s a 2016 video by Sarah Winnicki with tremendous appears to be like. Give your self a warbler quiz by figuring out them within the video.
Talking of Largest Week crowds: Will probably be fascinating to seek out out if the crowds attain the expected 80,000 – 90,000 with out the standard inflow of Canadians. By the tip of March, Cleveland had already observed a 30% drop in Canadian visits to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
For cities like Cleveland that depend on tourism {dollars} from numerous sources, together with Canadian guests arriving by way of Nice Lakes cruise ships, the rising pattern presents a big problem. As Johnston famous, “we’re going to maintain seeing the fallout of this” if political tensions proceed to escalate.
