I visited Killdeer Plains WA this afternoon arriving at about 4:00 pm.
Here are the highlights.

On Washburn Road, I found a flock of 120 Lapland Longspurs, many males
approaching full breeding plumage.  I looked for Smith's Longspurs in
the flock but found only Lapland Longspurs.  It was hard to find birds
against the background color of the corn stubble.  A few (I saw 3.)
American Pipits mixed in the flock.

I found one Forster's Tern in one of the impoundments along T108 between
C71 and C75.  There was a single Bank Swallow in with a flock of Tree
Swallows and a few Barn Swallows and some Northern Rough-winged
Swallows.  There are still waterfowl in the impoundments including Pond
27:  Gadwall 50, Northern Shoveler 10 (all drakes), Ruddy Duck 2, Hooded
Merganser 2, Ring-necked Duck 10, American Wigeon 4, Bufflehead 2.

 

At the Hardin County Wetlands, I birded along T50 and C205.  Savannah
Sparrows were singing.  My total count of American Golden Plovers was
35.  There were 8 in the tilled field south of T50 west of and near the
gravel pull offs and 27 along C205 north of the white building.  Just
before 6:00 pm, there was one Short-eared Owl flying over the fields
west of C205 and north of the white building.  In a muddy field south of
T64 just east of the intersection with C205, there was a large flock of
waterfowl:  120 Blue-winged Teal, 8 Green-winged Teal, 2 American
Wigeon, 1 Northern Pintail and 10 Gadwall.

Jay

 

Jay G. Lehman

Cincinnati, OH

[log in to unmask]    

 


______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.

You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]