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) Krause Road wildlife observation parking area, (4) Ottawa 
National Wildlife Refuge, and (5) Crane Creek State Park (Magee 
Marsh Wildlife Area). 

To get to Metzger Marsh: Go east past the turnoff to Maumee Bay 
State Park.  After a few miles you'll see a sign for DG's (hot 
dogs, hamburgers, ice cream) and a sign for Econo Lodge.  Keep 
going.  You will soon enter and pass through the small town of 
Bono.  You'll see a sign marking Bono.  A quarter mile ahead 
the road makes a sweeping turn to the right.  A short distance 
into the turn is an exit (left) to Metzger Marsh.  Watch 
carefully for the sign for Metzger Marsh.  Turn to the right 
immediately after you have turned left off Hwy 2, and follow a 
long straight road between fields on both sides of the road.  
You'll come to a left turn in the road near a motor home park 
across a channel.  Keep following the road.  The road turns to 
the right after a quarter mile.  Follow the long straight stretch 
to the end of the road and park in the parking lot.  There are 
woods on two sides of the parking lot.  These woods are very good 
for neotropical migrants.  Often, you can get two-thirds as many 
warblers here in one hour as you can get at Magee Marsh (Crane 
Creek SP) in a morning, and a couple of them will be different 
from any you found at Magee Marsh. 

In some years and in some weeks the impoundment to the right side 
of the last long stretch of the road is worth examining for 
Yellow-headed Blackbirds or shorebirds (if the impoundment has 
been drained) or waterfowl.

Also see the file "Crane Creek State Park" (with directions to 
Crane Creek State Park) for more information.  CCSP is about 22 
miles east of Toledo.