Hello!
 
While returning from Toledo to the Columbus area today, I briefly stopped  
off at the Upper Sandusky reservoir and Killdeer WA to check on waterfowl that  
might be present.  At Upper Sandusky, birds observed included the  following:
 
Canada Goose ~185 (no cacklers)
Ring-Necked Duck-2 pairs
Ruddy Duck ~14
Great Blue Heron
Killdeer
 
At Killdeer, the only waterfowl observed were at Pond 27.  Except for  3 
Canada Geese at Pond 6, no waterfowl were observed at the other ponds (3  and 33), 
wetlands, or the upland reservoir in the area.  I guess the birds  all know 
where they are safe during hunting season as Pond 27 is in the wildlife  refuge 
(non-hunting) portion of the area.  As far as I could tell given the  rainy 
overcast conditions and the fact that most of the birds were at the far  
(northern) end of the pond, there was nothing out of the ordinary but I observed  
the following birds at Pond 27:
 
American Wigeon-numerous
Green-Winged Teal-over 200
Osprey-3
American Black Duck ~6
Great Blue Heron ~35
American Coot-numerous in western half of pond
Northern Pintail ~20 in western half of pond
Wilson's Snipe ~25 feeding in mud flat on northern shore in eastern half of  
pond
Mallard-several
Killdeer-several
Greater Yellowlegs ~12-14
Northern Shoveler-pair
Gadwall-at least 2
Red-Tailed Hawk
 
Rob Lowry
Powell, Ohio
 
 
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