Greetings birders -
Sat March 22nd
A fantastic morning/afternoon in the field at Funk Bottoms and Killbuck Wildlife Areas and Overton Ponds, west of Wooster. Astounding amount of flooded habitat. We finished the day with 67 species, including 20 spp of waterfowl. The huge highlight was 4 (four) AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS in flight on Millbrook Road, .5 miles east of its intersection with Elyria Road (just south of Rt 3; and as the pelican flies, a wingbeat north of Wright Marsh). The birds were flying steadily (soaring) north but after circling several times, headed back southwest. Other highlights included: numerous American Pipits, Lapland Longspurs, Sandhill Crane, Pectoral Sandpiper, and great numbers of waterfowl. Good to see large numbers of Rusty Blackbird, a species that is surprisingly becoming more and more uncommon (overall) as precious boreal forest (wetland/bog habitat) is lessening and the species could be threatened.
This is an INCOMPLETE trip list describing a few of the major highlights at each location.
FUNK BOTTOMS WA / Wilderness Road
Tundra Swan - at least 60
Rusty Blackbird - point blank looks
Tree Swallow - 10
Canvasback, pintail, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, wigeon, Bufflehead abundant
WRIGHT MARSH / Killbuck WA
- Huge numbers of waterfowl led by scaup, Hooded Mergs, Ring-necked Duck, shovelers, Bufflehead
- smaller numbers of Ruddy Duck, wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Horned Grebe
- four Common Loons in full breeding plumage
- 2 Sandhill Cranes
KISTER POND (wetland at intersection of Kister Road and Shreve Road (226)
- Hooded Mergansers, Northern Shovelers, American Wigeon
- Blue-winged Teal (1)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (1)
- Wilson's Snipe (1)
- American Pipit (20+)
SHREVE LAKE / Critchfield Rd.
- 40+ Bonaparte's Gulls
- good mix of waterfowl
- 1 Common Loon full breeding
- good mix of sparrows
- agricultural fields across road held 50+ Lapland Longspurs, numerous Horned Larks
- American Pipits (40+) point blank in fields and on roadside, sometimes 15 ft away
OVERTON Ponds
- Ring-necked Ducks/scaup on southernmost ponds
- NORTHMOST pond best with Red-breasted and Hooded Mergansers, Horned and Pied-billed Grebes,
1 Common Loon in breeding plumage
best of birding -
Jen
Jen Brumfield
North Canton, OH
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