To add to Chris' excellent report about this weekend, and to continue 
the phoebe reports, I saw an Eastern Phoebe along the dike that 
separates Lake Erie from the marsh at Metzger after the majority of the 
group departed on Sunday.  Unlike the one that has been calling its name 
at my house in SW Ohio for the past week, this bird was silent, just 
bobbing its tail in the weeds along the trail. 
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Not to be too picky, Chris, but I think you meant to say that the Tundra 
Swans were at Ottawa. 
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The whole weekend was lots of fun, especially Norman Smith's talks on 
Snowy Owls and the many other raptors he has studied and banded over the 
years.  I really loved the many photos of his two "assistants" (his 
young son and daughter) holding hawks and owls. 
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~Kathi Hutton 
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Felicity, Clermont County 
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Date:    Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:20:43 -0400
 From:    Chris Knoll <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
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Subject: BSBO Annual Banquet Field Trips

Here is our bird list for today from Metzger and Ottawa National 
Wildlife
Refuge.

1. Canada Geese - both places
2. Mute Swan - Metzger
3. Trumpeter Swan - both places
4. Tundra Swan - Metzger
5. Wood Duck - 2 flyovers at Ottawa
6. Gadwall - both places
7. American Wigeon - both places
8. American Black Duck - Ottawa
9. Mallard - both places
10. Northern Shoveler - Ottawa
11. Northern Pintail - Metzger
12. Green-winged Teal - both places
13. Canvasback - Metzger
14. Redhead - both places
15. Ring-necked Duck - both places
16. Lesser Scaup - Metzger
17. Bufflehead - both places
18. Hooded Merganser - Ottawa
19. Common Merganser - Metzger
20. Ruddy Duck - Metzger
21. Pied-billed Grebe - both places
22. Horned Grebe - both places
23. Great Blue Heron - both places
24. Great Egret - (2) - Ottawa parking lot
25. Black-crowned Night Heron - Metzger
26. Bald Eagle - both places
27. Northern Harrier - Metzger
28. Red-tailed Hawk - Ottawa
29. American Coot - both places
30. Sandhill Cranes - 4 - calling and flying; Ottawa
31. Killdeer - both places
32. Wilson's Snipe - Ottawa
33. Ring-billed Gull - Ottawa
34. Herring Gull - Metzger
35. Mourning Dove - both places
36. Great-horned Owl on nest - Ottawa
37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - Ottawa
38. Downy Woodpecker - both places
39. N. Flicker - both places
40. American Crow - Ottawa
41. Horned Lark - Metzger
42. Tree Swallow - Ottawa
43. Winter Wren - Metzger
44. American Robin - both places
45. Yellow-rumped Warbler - Ottawa parking lot fly-over
46. European Starling - Metzger
47. American Tree Sparrow - Ottawa
48. Song Sparrow - both places
49. White-throated Sparrow - Metzger
50. Northern Cardinal - both places
51. RWBB - both places
52. Eastern Meadowlark - Metzger
53. Rusty Blackbird - Ottawa
54. C. Grackle - both places
55. Brown-headed Cowbird - Metzger
56. American Goldfinch - 1 male - Ottawa

Later birding fans,

Chris Knoll
Education Director
Black Swamp Bird Observatory
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