Mentor+Headlands+Area


 * =Birding in Ohio=

Lake County
=Mentor Headlands Area= Mentor, Ohio 44060

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Headlands Beach SP
Coordinates: 41.7581556, -81.2895048 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Headlands Beach SP--Shipman Pond
Coordinates: 41.7525432, -81.2912294 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 41.7642698, -81.2838936 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 41.7298817, -81.3397694 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 41.7376575, -81.300753 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve--Kerven Trail
Coordinates: 41.7302495, -81.3053732 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve--Wake Robin
Coordinates: 41.7297856, -81.3189554 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve--Zimmerman Trail
Coordinates: 41.744677, -81.297247 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Fairport Harbor Lakefront Park
Coordinates: 41.7588279, -81.2786579 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding the Mentor Headlands Area
The Mentor Headlands area includes Headlands Beach State Park, Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve, Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve, Fairport Harbor Lakefront Park, and Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve. The area has an impressive list of 334 species with single days during the spring migration of more than 130 bird species tallied. Days of 100 or more are common in May and possibly even in April. It is the most heavily covered area in the county and can attract 50 or more local birders on a May weekend. The habitat is diverse including lake shore, sand dunes, bottomland forest, marsh, upland forest, pine plantings, river, harbor, and open fields, all in an area that is just a 6.6 mile stretch of Lake Erie Shoreline. All of these areas are easy to access and have ample parking. Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve and the adjacent Headlands Beach State Park is an excellent starting point for spring and fall migrants plus waterfowl, shore birds, gulls, and terns which can be found walking along the beach and jetty which leads out to the lighthouse.

Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve was Ohio’s first state nature preserve and the only remaining natural marsh along Ohio’s Lake Erie shore. It is being restored to remove invasive phragmites and return native marsh plants. The Wake Robin Trail boardwalk is an excellent place to find Virginia and Sora Rails, bitterns, Marsh and Sedge Wren and a wide variety of sparrow species including Nelson’s and LeConte’s. Zimmerman Trail offers upland forests which attract a variety of migrant songbirds.

Fairport Harbor Lakefront Park offers excellent fall and winter birding with abundant waterfowl and often a good variety of gulls.

Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve is a forested area right on the lake shore which can be loaded with migrant songbirds and offers views of the lake that can turn up unusual species year round.

Great places for lunch are found in the village of Grand River From Birding Lake County's Often Overlooked Birding Hotspots by Haans Petruschke

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