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=Oak Openings= =Buehner Center and Mallard Lake= 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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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

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

About Buehner Center and Mallard Lake
The Buehner Center is a newly renovated facility with may be rented for events. There is a "Window on Wildlife" with a view of bird feeders. Mallard Lake can host water birds.

About Window on Wildlife
The Window on Wildlife at the Oak Openings Metropark is located in the Buehner Center.

Take a seat in a warm, dry place where you can observe birds and other wildlife attracted to feeding stations and water features. Windows On Wildlife are mini-nature centers open every day during park hours.

This room looks out onto professionally created and maintained wildlife feeding stations outside, with interpretive information inside to help you identify the birds and other animals that you are looking at. Windows on Wildlife are handicap accessible and heated for year-round use by everyone. From Toledo Metropark Windows on Wildlife webpage

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

Red Crossbills Photo by Ryan Lesniewicz

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