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I spent this morning birding Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County. Walking the south dike I flushed or heard 1 AMERICAN BITTERN, 2 VIRGINIA RAILS, and 4 SORA. Dabbling ducks and shorebirds were numerous, but nearly impossible to count. Flocks were continuously moving across the marsh and dissappearing in vegetation. 6 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS and 1 Vesper Sparrow were singing in the fields just west of the intersection of LaRue-Prospect Rd and Espyvile Rd.
Some birds observed were:
~300 Blue-winged Teal
~40 Hooded Merganser
~30 Green-winged Teal
XX Canada Goose
~30 Mallard
~20 Wood Duck
5 American Black Duck
4 Northern Shoveler
3 Northern Pintail
1 Mute Swan
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Northern Harrier
4 Bald Eagle
~45 American Coot
~200 Lesser Yellowlegs
~140 Pectoral Sandpiper
~50 Dunlin
~20 Killdeer
6 Solitary Sandpiper
3 Wilson's Snipe
2 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Dowitcher sp.
4 Red-headed Woodpecker
7 American Pipit
1 Prothonotary Warbler
1 Nashville Warbler
12 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 Yellow Warbler
3 Swamp Sparrow
4 Savannah Sparrow
XX Field Sparrow
XX Song Sparrow
Ticks are back in full force.
Jack Stenger,
Ohio Wesleyan University
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