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Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:42:34 -0500
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Hi Everyone,

Beth and I decided to take advantage of the open auto tour day at Ottawa
National Wildlife Refuge yesterday (Feb 17). There werenąt many birders
there‹I guess the snow and the fact that all the water was frozen and fields
were snow-covered might have warned saner birders off. We did manage to see
some nice birds, though the snow kept us off the trails. Hereąs what we had:

  
 Canada Goose- 350 
 Tundra Swan- 25  
 Bald Eagle- 2  
 Northern Harrier- 5
 American Kestrel- 2
 Red-tailed Hawk- 3
 Mourning Dove- 3  
 Northern Flicker- 1
 Blue Jay- 4  
 American Robin- 2 
 European Starling- 25
 American Tree Sparrow- 50
 Song Sparrow- 5  
 Dark-eyed Junco- 4
 Northern Cardinal- 12
 House Sparrow- 35

Later we went over to Castalia to check out the ponds. We did pretty well
there (for most of the awterfowl we canąt give numbers, as they kept moving
back and forth, diving and mixing it up pretty well‹but there were hundred
of ducks, if not more, in the ponds):

  
 Canada Goose  
 Mute Swan-  3
 Tundra Swan-2  
 Gadwall   
 American Wigeon  
 American Black Duck
 Mallard   
 Northern Shoveler 
 Canvasback   
 Redhead   
 Lesser Scaup- few
 Bufflehead-fewer than a dozen
 Common Goldeneye  
 Hooded Merganser- 1 And this was an odd duck (so to speak :-) ) At least we
think it was a Hooded Merganser. But: there was no white at all in the hood,
and
                               the flanks, rather than the warm brownish
tone we would expect, were gray-colored. But the shape and size were
perfect, the bill was a
                               black merganser bill‹I donąt know what else
it could have been...
 Ruddy Duck- 3 or 4
 Ring-billed Gull- 4
 Dark-eyed Junco- 5

On Route 2, at the Medusa ponds, we also had a group of 5-6 Great Blue
Herons gathered around a little bit of open water

Finally, we went back to Ottawa County, to the Lickert-Harder Road, where a
group of Short-eared Owls had been seen the day before. We didnąt get them,
but we did have two groups of Horned Larks on the sides of the roads, about
25-30 birds in all. We were able to get very close and had really good
looks.

Best wishes,

Steve Cagan
Cleveland Hts

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