This afternoon the Darke County Birders went to the Darke Wildlife Area to look for rails. No luck on the rails.
Top birds for the afternoon were 5 hooded mergansers and 3 swamp sparrows.
Later, I checked out some flooded fields west of Greenville and found 21 greater yellowlegs.
Location: Darke Wildlife Area
Observation date: 4/12/08
Notes: Darke County birders' outing
Number of species: 18
Canada Goose 4
Wood Duck 4
Mallard 2
Hooded Merganser 5
Killdeer 2
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Tree Swallow 4
American Robin 14
European Starling 8
Song Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 3
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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