A bonus day - 67 degrees and bright sunshine in late November? Unheard of!  I
was able to spend the morning birding East Fork Lake State Park (DeLorme pg
75, D6) with members of the Cincinnati Bird Club.  As seems to be the case, the
gorgeous weather meant the birding was less than stellar, but I had a really
nice day and the relatively low number of species did not ruin my enjoyment.
After all, it was a "4 woodpecker day," and I consider anything over 3
woodpecker species to be pretty good!  My trip list:

       Common Loon
       Horned Grebe
       Pied-billed Grebe
       Mallard
       Lesser Scaup
       Ruddy Duck
       American Coot
       Ring-billed Gull
       Bonaparte's Gull
       Great Blue Heron
       Killdeer
       Belted Kingfisher
       Pileated Woodpecker
       Red-bellied Woodpecker
       Common Flicker
       Downy Woodpecker
       American Crow
       Blue Jay
       Carolina Chickadee
       Tufted Titmouse
       White-breasted Nuthatch
       Carolina Wren
       Cedar Waxwing
       Dark-eyed Junco
       Northern Cardinal
       Eastern Towhee
       White-throated Sparrow
       Field Sparrow
       Swamp Sparrow
       American Tree Sparrow
       Song Sparrow
       American Goldfinch

Back at home, my bird feeder bird list included:

       Mourning Dove
       Red-bellied Woodpecker
       Downy Woodpecker
       Blue Jay
       Carolina Chickadee
      Tufted Titmouse
       Carolina Wren
       Eastern Bluebird
       Dark-eyed Junco
       Northern Cardinal
       White-crowned Sparrow
       Song Sparrow
       House Finch
       American Goldfinch

Eliminating the duplicates gives me a total for today of 36 species.
Conspicuous by their absence were raptors, turkey vultures, and Canada geese.  I
missed the brown creeper, golden-crowned kinglets, yellow-rumped warbler, and
red-breasted mergansers.  Thankfully, no starlings or house sparrows!

Hope you were able to enjoy this glorious day,

Kathi Hutton
Felicity, Clermont Co.
Delorme pg 82, B3
Lat. 38.828, Lon. -84.063

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