We (Steve Wolfe and I) took a drive around the Columbus metro area to look
for ducks today.  First spot was the Scioto River just south of 5th Avenue.
The list of birds seen include:

Lesser Scaup (xx)
Red-breasted Merganser (3 male)
Hooded Merganser (7 male, 4 female)
Mallards (xx)
Canada Goose (12)
Snow Goose (11, white and colored morphs)
Ring-necked duck (x)
Ring-billed gulls (ca. 200)
Common golden eye (x)
Belted Kingfisher (1)
Redhead duck (x)

Next stop was the Scioto below Greenlawn Dam

Lesser Scaup (x)
Hooded Merganser (x)
Mallard (xx)
Common Goldeneye (x)
Ring-necked Duck (x)
Ring-billed Gull (xx)
Canada Goose (xx)
Bufflehead (x)

Pickerington Pond

Northen Pintail (1 male, 1 female)
Wood Duck (1 male, 1 female)
Lesser Scaup (x)
Mallard (x)
Canada Goose (xx)
Carolina Chickadee
Ring-neck Duck (xx)
Turkey Vulture
Crow
Rock Pigeons (several hundred)
American Kestrel (1)
Redhead duck (xx)
American black duck

Hoover Reservoir below Sunbury dam
Canada Goose
Mallard
American Robin
Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Great Blue Heron (6)
Ring-neck Duck
Turkey Vulture
Crow
Ring-billed gull





--
Andi Wolfe
www.AndiWolfe.com

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