Saturday, Columbus Audubon members, AKA the Greater Variables who were Birdathoning saw the following for a 100 plus bird day. Notably missing were easy birds such as house finch, nuthatch, chickadees.. but such was the day at the lake - and a great day it was.

The following were seen at Magee, Metzger and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge:
1       Canada Goose
2       Mute Swan
3       Trumpeter Swan
4       Wood Duck
5       Gadwall
6       Mallard
7       Blue-winged Teal
8       Northern Shoveler
9       Double-crested Cormorant
10     Pied-billed Grebe
11     Great Blue Heron
12     Great Egret
13     Snowy Egret
14     Glossy Ibis
15     Turkey Vulture
16     Osprey
17     Bald Eagle
18     Red-tailed Hawk
19     Virginia Rail
20     Sora
21     Common Moorhen
22     American Coot
23     Black-bellied Plover
24     American Golden-Plover
25     Semiplamated Plover
26     Killdeer
27     Lesser Yellowlegs
28     Ruddy Turnstone
29     Least Sandpiper
30     Dunlin
31     Short-billed Dowitcher
32     American Woodcock
33     Laughing Gull
34     Ring-billed Gull
35     Herring Gull
36     Caspian Tern
37     Black Tern
38     Common Tern
39     Forster’s Tern
40     Rock Pigeon
41     Mourning Dove
42     Eastern Screech-Owl
43     Chimney Swift
44     Ruby-throated Hummingbird
45     Downy Woodpecker
46     Least Flycatcher
47     Eastern Kingbird
48     White-eyed Vireo
49     Blue-headed Vireo
50     Philadelphia Vireo
51     Red-eyed Vireo
52     Blue Jay
53     American Crow
54     Purple Martin
55     Tree Swallow
56     Barn Swallow
57     House Wren
58     Winter Wren
59     Sedge Wren
60     Ruby-crowned Kinglet
61     Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
62     Very
63     American Robin
64     Grey Catbird
65     American Robin
66     European Starling
67     Tennessee Warbler
68     Nashville Warbler
69     Northern Parula
70     Yellow Warbler
71     Chestnut-sided Warbler
72     Magnolia Warbler
73     Cape May Warbler
74     Black-throated Blue Warbler
75     Yellow-rumped Warbler
76     Black-throated Green Warbler
77     Blackburnian Warbler
78     Palm Warbler
79     Bay-breasted Warbler
80     Black-and-white Warbler
81     American Redstart
82     Ovenbird
83     Northern Waterthrush
84     Mourning Warbler
85     Common Yellowthroat
86     Wilson’s Warbler
87     Canada Warbler
88     Song Sparrow
89     Lincoln’s Sparrow
90     Swamp Sparrow
91     White-throated Sparrow
92     White Crowned Sparrow
93     Northern Cardinal
94     Rose-breasted Grosbeak
95     Red-winged Blackbird
96     Yellow-headed Blackbird
97     Common Grackle
98     Brown-headed Cowbird
99     Baltimore Oriole
100   American Goldfinch
101   House Sparrow

Michael Packer
Grandview Heights



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