The 9th annual North Coast Open, sponsored by the Toledo Naturalists' Association, ended at 9 PM Saturday night (May 17) at the Blackberry Corner's Restaurant. The Open Division finishers (and their species totals) were Trail Blazers, 169 species (all-time high total for the NCO); Bird Dogs, 143; Woodcocks, 141; Fly By Nights, 131; and Sylvania Twitchers, 119. In the Junior Division, the finishers were Killer Kestrels, 114, and Birders of Prey, 107. The Freestyle Division teams were Swarm of Andersons, 151; Mark Miller’s Maniacs, 139; Bluebirds, 109; and Late Risers, 73. Congratulations to the Trail Blazer team of Becky, Brad, and Jeff Cullen and Greg Links for winning the Peregrine Cup. (Greg Links shown exuberant in photo above)

Congratulations to all participants! Among the total combined list for all groups of 191 species were some stellar birds including American White pelican, White-faced ibis, Laughing gull, and Least tern. The complete list of all the bird species seen and/or heard by the North Coast teams on Saturday, May 17, 2003, between midnight and 9 PM in Lucas, Ottawa, Wood, Sandusky and Erie Counties, is:

Common loon; Pied-billed grebe; American White pelican; Double-crested cormorant; American bittern; Least bittern; Great Blue heron; Great egret; Snowy egret; Green heron; Black-crowned Night-heron; White-faced ibis; Turkey vulture; Mute swan; Tundra swan; Trumpeter swan; Canada goose; Wood duck; Gadwall; American Black duck; Mallard; Blue-winged teal; Northern shoveler; Northern pintail; Green-winged teal; Redhead; Lesser scaup; Hooded merganser; Ruddy duck; 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; Virginia rail; Sora; Common moorhen; American coot; Black-bellied plover; American Golden-plover; Semipalmated plover; Killdeer; Lesser yellowlegs; Spotted sandpiper; Solitary sandpiper; Upland sandpiper; Ruddy turnstone; Sanderling; Semipalmated sandpiper; Least sandpiper; White-rumped sandpiper; Pectoral sandpiper; Dunlin; American woodcock.

Laughing gull; Bonaparte’s gull; Ring-billed gull; Herring gull; Caspian tern; Common tern; Forster’s tern; Least tern; Black 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; Pileated woodpecker; E. Wood-pewee; Yellow-bellied flycatcher; Acadian flycatcher; Willow flycatcher; Alder flycatcher; Least flycatcher; Eastern phoebe; Great Crested flycatcher; Eastern kingbird; White-eyed vireo; Blue-headed vireo; Yellow-throated vireo; Warbling vireo; Philadelphia vireo; Red-eyed vireo; Blue jay; American crow; Horned lark; Purple martin; Tree swallow; N. Rough-winged swallow; Bank swallow; Cliff swallow; Barn swallow; Black-capped chickadee; Tufted titmouse; White-breasted nuthatch; 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; European starling; American pipit; Cedar waxwing; Blue-winged warbler; Tennessee warbler; Orange-crowned warbler; Nashville warbler; Northern parula; Yellow warbler; Chestnut-sided warbler; Magnolia Warbler; Cape May warbler; Black-throated Blue warbler; Yellow-rumped warbler; Black-throated Green warbler; Blackburnian warbler; Pine warbler; Palm warbler; Bay-breasted warbler; Blackpoll warbler; Cerulean warbler; Black-and-white warbler; American redstart; Ovenbird; Northern waterthrush; Connecticut warbler; Mourning warbler; Common yellowthroat; Hooded warbler; Wilson’s warbler; Canada warbler; Yellow-breasted chat.

Summer tanager; Scarlet tanager; Eastern towhee; Chipping sparrow; Field sparrow; Vesper sparrow; Lark sparrow; Savannah sparrow; Grasshopper sparrow; Henslow’s sparrow; Song sparrow; Lincoln’s sparrow; Swamp sparrow; White-throated sparrow; White-crowned sparrow; Northern cardinal; Rose-breasted grosbeak; Indigo bunting; Bobolink; Red-winged blackbird; Eastern meadowlark; Western meadowlark; Common grackle; Brown-headed cowbird; Orchard oriole; Baltimore oriole; House finch; American goldfinch; House sparrow.