Good birding sites along the stretch of Hwy 2 east of Toledo 

In order out of Toledo as you're driving east, good birding stops 
are (1) Maumee Bay State Park, (2) Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area, 
(3) Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, and (4) Crane Creek State 
Park (Magee Marsh Wildlife Area). 

See the file cranecrk.txt (with directions to Crane Creek State 
Park) for more information.  CCSP is about 22 miles east of 
Toledo.

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Date:          Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:57:28 -0400
From:          Betsy Perry <meperry@cms.cc.wayne.edu>
Reply-to:      meperry@cms.cc.wayne.edu
Organization:  Wayne State University
To:            "Bruce M. Bowman" <bbowman@umich.edu>
Subject:       Re: Maumee Bay State Park

Bruce M. Bowman wrote: 
> You mentioned once that there's good birding at Maumee Bay State Park
> besides at the Nature Center's boardwalk.  Where?  I plan to 
> make all the "Ohio strip" stops sometime soon.

The campground and environs.  A slow cruise through this area in a car
is usually productive.  There is often a Western Meadowlark (*always*
Eastern Meadowlarks), sometimes (if you've been very, very good and the
Birding Gods are pleased and you're there at just the right moment)
Short-eared Owls, usually Pheasant and stuff.  There should be a Harrier
or two in that scrubby stuff between the Nature Center and the
campground.

Also if you take the road north from 2 that goes into the campground end
of the park (the name of which I would tell you if I could remember it),
you can get some nice field and fence row stuff.  You should find Horned
Larks, for one thing.

There's a lot of good cruising along there, but it's been a while and I
just don't have all the street names and stuff at my fingers' ends.