The Birds of Cedar Point, Sandusky. 
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THE BIRDS OF CEDAR POINT, SANDUSKY. 
R. L. Baird. 
The following list of birds I observed on Cedar Point within 
two miles of its extremity, from July 30th to August 20th, 1901, 
while a student at the O. S. U. Lake Laboratory. The list is 
not so complete as it might be. I found the birds I did for the 
most part in short daily visits of about an hour each, generally 
in the afternoon. One whole day I spent on the Point and two 
half days. With one exception, that of the American Herring 
Gull, I think all the species named nest in the neighborhood of 
Cedar Point. The list ought to be much extended by going 
over the part nearer the mainland. I think at least fifteen or 
twenty more species ought to be found there as summer residents. 
I rode from Oberlin to Sandusky several times and the 
additional species I saw in Erie count}- I shall add in a list by 
themselves. The most noticeable of these were the Bank 
Swallows. They were in immense flocks along the road from 
Sandusky to Huron. Sometimes as many as five hundred would 
alight on two lengths of telephone wire. 
The Long-billed Marsh Wrens were quite common all the 
time in the reeds to the west of the Point. They were not 
singing, however, after August 5th. The swamps upon the 
Point supplied many of the shore birds. In a flock there were 
generally Bartramian, Pectoral, Spotted and Semipalmated Sand- 
pipers, Semipalmated Plover, and Killdeers. It was a common 
thing during the last week to hear the Coots in the marsh west 
of the Point. Pied-billed Grebes were also tolerably common 
there. The Bald Eagles were probably a pair which had a nest 
nearer the mainland. The American Bittern I quote on the 
authority of Air. Field, of Dennison College. 
I use the order of the latest A. O. U. check-list. The 
following abbreviations I add after each species : C. — common ; 
Tc.— tolerably common; Fe. — few; figures indicate the exact 
number seen. 
CEDAR POINT LIST. 
6. Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps. Tc. 
51a. American Herring Gull, Lams argentatus smithsonianus. 1. 
70. Common Tern, Sterna liirundo. C. 
77. Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Fe. 
190. American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus. Fe. 
j 91 . Least Bittern, Ardetta exilis. Fe. 
194. Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias. Tc. 
201. Green Heron, Ardea virescens. Tc. 
212. Virginia Rail, Rallus virginianus. Tc. 
214. Sora, Porzana Carolina. Tc. 
