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

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 Pt. Pelee National Park, Ontario Canada on the Jet Express


Thursday, May 6
Thursday, May 13
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.

For reservations you must call the Jet Express directly at:
800-245-1538
HOURS: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST, Monday - Friday

Fee: $85
Experience spring migration on the northern shore of Lake Erie! Many migratory birds use Point Pelee to rest and feed as they make their long migratory flight across the lake in route to their northern nesting grounds.  

The Jet Express will take you and expert bird guides from Black Swamp Bird Observatory to Point Pelee National Park to look for migrating songbirds along the Pelee peninsula. Continental breakfast, shuttle service on the peninsula, park entry fee, and a box lunch are included in this guided excursion.  …so grab your binoculars and jet-away-with-us on this exciting birdwatching excursion! 

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

Birding by Ferry to Kelleys Island
Monday, May 10
Friday, May 14
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 lunch.
Fee: $50

Experience 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. You will make two birding stops before lunch, The Glacial Grooves State Memorial area (the largest accessible Devonian limestone glacial grooves in the world), and the North Pond State Nature Preserve boardwalk. We will have lunch at the northwestern point of the island at Camp Patmos and will bird the Camp Patmos' grounds and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Jones Preserve grounds on Long Point.

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.



 

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