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Saturday, March 21--What a great day for the auto tour at Ottawa NWR.
Abundant waterfowl everywhere. We were not disappointed at Metzger either.
Ottawa:
Pied-billed grebe
American coots
Tundra and trumpeter swans
Canada geese
Great blue herons
Great egrets
Ring-billed, Bonaparte's, and herring gulls
Gadwalls
Mallards
Hooded and common mergansers
Northern shovelers
Ring-necked ducks
American widgeons
Black ducks
Redheads
Canvasbacks
Wood ducks
Northern pintails
Green- and blue-winged teals
Buffleheads
Lesser scaups
Killdeer
Wilson's snipes
Lesser yellowlegs
Bald eagles
Northern harriers
Red-tailed hawks
American kestrel
Downy woodpecker
Tree swallows
Northern cardinal
Black-capped chickadee
Dark-eyed juncos
Brown-headed cowbirds
Red-winged and rusty blackbirds
Common grackles
American robin
Song, swamp, house, and tree sparrows
Metzger Marsh--In late afternoon, the light was not in our favor. A return
trip Sunday morning should be better.
Great blue herons
Canvasbacks
Gadwalls
Redheads
Buffleheads
American coots
Green- and blue-winged teals
Lesser scaups
Ring-necked ducks
American widgeons (heard the Eurasian had been seen around 2:30 p.m. but
no luck. Maybe Sunday morning.)
Horned lark
Mourning dove
Ring-billed gulls
Bald eagle
Red-winged and rusty blackbirds
Eastern phoebe
American tree, song, and house sparrows
An interesting observation: Along Zenser Rd./Turtle Creek, the bare
trees held hundreds and hundreds of male cowbirds and a few female cowbirds,
hundreds and hundreds of female redwings and few males, many grackles and a few
rusties.
Ed and Bev Neubauer
Englewood, Ohio
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