NORTH
COAST OPEN 2001 RESULTS The
7th Annual "North Coast Open," sponsored by the Toledo Naturalists'
Association, ended at 9 PM Saturday night (May 19, 2001) at the Blackberry Corner's
Restaurant, after 21 hours of team birding. The
highest team totals in the divisions competing for the traveling Peregrine Cup
were The Birders of Prey (Junior Division) with 74 species; this voracious team
was captained by Jim Witter and included teammates Patrick Witter, Sam Corbo,
and Lindsay Sanzenbacher. The Geri-Falcons again captured the Senior Division
(67 species); this veteran team consists of Peter and Polly White and John and
Adelaide Morse. The Volunteers (Eric Durbin, Greg Links, and Elliot Tramer)
finished first in the Open Division with 141 species (it was a slow day). Consequently,
possession of the Peregrine Cup was turned over to The Volunteers for safekeeping
until next year's event. Runners-up in the Open Division were the BG Bird Hunters
with a total of 131 species. The
combined list of all the bird species (Total= 184) seen and/or heard by the North
Coast teams on Saturday, May 19, 2001, between midnight and 9 PM in Lucas, Ottawa,
Wood, Sandusky and Erie Counties, is: Common
loon; Pied-billed grebe; Double-crested cormorant; Least bittern; Great Blue heron;
Great egret; Snowy egret; Tricolored heron; Cattle egret; Green heron; Black-crowned
Night-heron; Mute swan; Canada goose; Wood duck; Mallard; Blue-winged teal; Gadwall;
Redhead; Ring-necked duck; Lesser scaup; Hooded merganser; Red-breasted merganser;
Ruddy duck; Turkey vulture; Osprey; Bald eagle; Northern harrier; Sharp-shinned
hawk; Cooper's hawk; Red-shouldered hawk; Broad-winged hawk; Red-tailed hawk;
American kestrel; Peregrine falcon; Ring-necked pheasant; Wild turkey; Virginia
rail; Sora; Common moorhen; American coot; Black-bellied plover; Semipalmated
plover; Killdeer; Greater yellowlegs; Lesser yellowlegs; Spotted sandpiper;
Willet; Solitary sandpiper; Upland sandpiper; Ruddy turnstone; Sanderling;
Semipalmated sandpiper; Least sandpiper; Dunlin; Stilt sandpiper; Ruff;
dowitcher sp.; American woodcock. Ring-billed
gull; Herring gull; Common tern; Forster's tern; Rock dove; Mourning dove; Black-billed
cuckoo; Yellow-billed cuckoo; E. Screech-owl; Great horned owl; Barred owl; Common
nighthawk; Whip-poor-will; Chimney swift; Ruby-throated hummingbird; Belted kingfisher;
Red-headed woodpecker; Red-bellied woodpecker; Downy woodpecker; Hairy woodpecker;
Northern flicker; Olive-sided flycatcher; E. Wood-pewee; Yellow-bellied flycatcher;
Acadian flycatcher; Willow flycatcher; Alder flycatcher; Least flycatcher; Eastern
phoebe; Great crested flycatcher; Eastern kingbird; Horned lark; Purple
martin; Tree swallow; N. Rough-winged swallow; Bank swallow; Cliff swallow; Bam
swallow; Bluejay; American crow; Black-capped chickadee; Tufted titmouse; Red-breasted
nuthatch; White-breasted nuthatch; Brown creeper; Carolina wren; House wren; Sedge
wren; Marsh wren; Ruby-crowned kinglet; Blue-gray gnatcatcher; Eastern bluebird;
Veery; Gray-cheeked thrush; Swainson's thrush; Hermit thrush; Wood thrush;
American robin. Gray
catbird; Northern mockingbird; Brown thrasher; American pipit; Cedar waxwing;
European starling; White-eyed vireo; Blue-headed vireo; Yellow-throated vireo;
Warbling vireo; Philadelphia vireo; Red-eyed vireo; Blue-winged warbler; Golden-winged
warbler; Tennessee warbler; Nashville warbler; Northern parula; Yellow warbler;
Chestnut-sided warbler; Magnolia warbler; Cape May warbler; Black-throated green
warbler; Yellow-throated warbler; Pine warbler; Bay-breasted warbler; Blackpoll
warbler; Cerulean warbler; Black-and-white warbler, American redstart; Ovenbird;
Northern waterthrush; Louisiana waterthrush; Kentucky warbler; Connecticut warbler;
Mourning warbler, Common yellowthroat; Hooded warbler; Wilson's warbler; Canada
warbler; Yellow- breasted chat. Summer
tanager; Scarlet tanager; Northern cardinal; Rose-breasted grosbeak; Indigo bunting;
Eastern towhee; Chipping sparrow; Clay-colored sparrow; Field sparrow; Vesper
sparrow; Lark sparrow; Savannah sparrow; Grasshopper sparrow; Henslow's sparrow;
Song sparrow; Lincoln's sparrow; Swamp sparrow; White-throated sparrow; Bobolink;
Red-winged blackbird; Eastern meadowlark; Yellow-headed blackbird; Common grackle;
Brown-headed cowbird; Orchard oriole; Baltimore oriole; House finch; American
goldfinch; House sparrow. | 
