LEMP Ibis - Yes

[John Lowry]

Birders,

Returning from a nice half day trip to the Crane Creek boardwalk,  
where birding was pretty good, my party stopped at Lake Erie Metro  
Park in hopes of sighting the previously reported White-faced Ibis.   
Got it almost immediately hanging at the south end of the park  
(Fisherman's Cove) and associating with geese at first (strange  
sight!) and then fending off Ring-billed Gulls as it successfully  
probed for worms in standing water on the turf grass.

Crane Creek birds of the day were probably the Cape May Warblers and  
show-stopping Northern Parulas, both foraging near eye level.  Not a  
fallout day, but thoroughly enjoyable.  Pretty high concentration of  
birders and photographers on the boardwalk.

John Lowry
Hamburg Twp.