Oak+Openings+Preserve+Metropark

Also, see Oak Openings, Wabash Cannonball Trail, Biggest Week in American Birding, Oak Openings Important Bird Area, and Oak Openings Birding Drive
 * =Birding in Ohio=

Lucas County
=Oak Openings Preserve Metropark= 4139 Girdham Road Swanton, Ohio 43558 Oak Openings Preserve Metropark webpage Oak Openings Preserve map Oak Openings Trails webpage Oak Openings Preserve recommended birding sites

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Tips for birding Oak Openings
From Lake Erie Birding Trail website From Ohio Ornithological society website From Oak Openings Metropark webpage

Oak Openings Preserve Metropark
Coordinates: 41.551807, -83.8502312 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Buehner Center and Mallard Lake
Coordinates: 41.5462998, -83.8445368 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Evergreen Lake
Coordinates: 41.5338966, -83.8313913 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Girdham Rd. @ Reed Rd.
Coordinates: 41.5492505, -83.854351 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Girdham Rd. @ Sager Rd.
Coordinates: 41.5746417, -83.8539916 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Girdham Rd. Sand Dunes
Coordinates: 41.5546927, -83.8525559 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Horse Rider Center
Coordinates: 41.5363527, -83.8544141 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Lodge Area
Coordinates: 41.5438123, -83.840071 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Manore Rd.
Coordinates: 41.5323139, -83.863492 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Orange Trail
Coordinates: 41.5479658, -83.8374639 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Red Trail
Coordinates: 41.5512899, -83.8516796 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Ridge Trail
Coordinates: 41.5411565, -83.8418841 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--South Wabash Rd. Ski Trail
Coordinates: 41.5379844, -83.839379 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Springbrook Lake Trail
Coordinates: 41.5582095, -83.8753624 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Wabash Cannonball Trail
Coordinates: 41.5563946, -83.8404572 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Wilkins Rd. @ Sager Rd. (Lucas Co.)
Coordinates: 41.5748589, -83.8392287 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Oak Openings--Yellow Trail
Coordinates: 41.5439911, -83.8475275 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Oak Openings
Located between Whitehouse and Swanton, Oak Openings Preserve takes its name from the surrounding region, which is 23 times larger than the park itself. That’s something to consider when you realize that Oak Openings Preserve is over 4,000 acres.

Pioneers trudging through a dense swamp called this area “Oak Openings.” Most of the park is an oak savanna ecosystem, characterized by alternating wetlands and vegetated dunes. The Nature Conservancy once named the sandy region one of the 200 “Last Great Places on Earth.”

Prickly-pear cactus, wild lupine and sand cherry bloom atop dry, hot sand dunes just yards away from orchids growing in low, wet swales. There are more than 50 miles of trails in Oak Openings Preserve. Stands of isolated pine and spruce planted by the WPA during the Great Depression are still visible.

Oak Openings is a birder's paradise. It is the nesting place of bluebirds, indigo buntings, whippoorwills, Lark sparrows, and many other species, as well as an excellent location to see migrating songbirds in the spring. From Oak Openings Preserve Metropark webpage

Lark Sparrow Photo by Ian Gardner

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