This morning on the Morning Discovery Hike @ Shawnee Prairie Preserve, our
group had fairly decent success.  We spotted/heard about 16 spp and most of
our newer birders were able to spot most of the visible birds, which is a
plus!

I was happy since we spotted my first Wilson's Warbler!  Never imagined I
get a new warbler on a fall walk, guess i was wrong!

If you are in the Darke County area, contact me if you interested in our
morning walks.

And now, the list!

Location:  DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve
Observation date:  9/4/07

Number of species:  16

Canada Goose
American Kestrel - gorgeous male up on the hill
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift - LOTS
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - several buzzing the feeders
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay - LOTS
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
House Wren
American Robin - 1
European Starling - 5
Wilson's Warbler - 1
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

--
Robb Clifford
- Naturalist -

Darke County Parks
www.darkecountyparks.org

"We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals.  Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.  We
patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken a form so far below ourselves.  And therein we err, and greatly
err.  For the animal shall not be measured by man.  In a world older and
more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with
extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we
shall never hear.  They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are
other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
-Outermost House by Henry Beston-

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