The Biggest Week in American Birding, a birding festival held in the Crane Creek - Magee Marsh Region of Northwest Ohio.

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Birding Festival in the Crane Creek -
Magee Marsh - Ottawa NWR Region
of Northwest Ohio

BIRDING TRIPS TO POINT PELEE & KELLEYS ISLAND

Birding by Jet to Point Pelee National Park, Ontario Canada on the Jet Express


Thursday, May 5
Thursday, May 12
7:45 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Departure and Arrival:
Jet Express Dock
3 N. Monroe Street
Port Clinton, OH 43452

You must be a US Citizen and have a current US passport.
Your tickets for this activity will be mailed to you in advance.

Fee: $85
Experience spring migration on the northern shore of Lake Erie! For many migratory birds, Point Pelee, Canada, will be the first forested land they encounter as they make their long migratory flight across the lake, en route to their northern nesting grounds. The Jet Express passenger ferry, will whisk you 32 miles across Lake Erie to Canada. In a little over an hour, you will travel coast to coast, enjoy a beautiful lake cruise and pass many of the islands in the western basin of Lake Erie.

This guided trip includes: Coffee & doughnuts upon boarding, box lunch with a bottle of water to take with you on the trails, shuttle to and from the Leamington Marina to Point Pelee National Park visitor's center (information booth, trail maps, bird-sightings chart, theater, gift shop, exhibits & restrooms), park admission, shuttle to and from Point Pelee Tip (exhibits, shelter & restrooms) and Marsh (boardwalk), Jet Express Cruise, expert bird guides, and free parking at the dock.

The Jet Express supports Black Swamp Bird Observatory by being a Business Alliance Partner.



Birding by Ferry to Kelleys Island
Wednesday, May 11
7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Departure and Arrival: Kelleys Island Ferry Dock
510 W Main St. (SR-163)
Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio 43440
Trip includes ferry fee, expert bird guides, island transportation and a buffet lunch.
Fee: $50

Camp Patmos Tram

Group arriving on Kelleys IslandExperience spring migration on the largest US island in Lake Erie which is used as a "stepping stone" by migrating songbirds. You will bird while making the 25 minute ferry passage and be taken to your birding locations by an island tram. Before lunch you will bird the Glacial Grooves State Memorial area (the largest accessible Devonian limestone glacial grooves in the world). We will have lunch at the northwestern point of the island at Camp Patmos and will bird the Camp Patmos' Group birding the Glacial Grooves area of the islandgrounds and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Jones Preserve grounds on Long Point after lunch.

You will board the ferry by foot and must be able to carry all you will need during this excursion. Parking at the ferry dock is $8 and is on your own. The ferry dock is located 30 miles east of the Magee Marsh boardwalk or 11 miles east of Port Clinton.  Take SR-2 east to SR-163 East.


Our Kelleys Island Trip Leaders:
Cheryl Harner
Andy Jones
Greg Miller
John Robinson

For more information about our leaders, click here.



 

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