This morning's Early Morning Discovery Hike at Darke County Parks' Shawnee
Prairie Preserve had a large turnout of species.  In the 1.5 hours we hiked,
we spotted/heard 39 spp!  Good Times!

Lots of migrants moving through!  We had many ruby and golden crowned
kinglets throughout the forest and many Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers!  These
guys were everywhere!

We found a couple of Hermit Thrushes running along near the trail.  There
were also several spp displaying nesting behaviors.  White-throated Sparrows
and Juncos are still hanging around the feeders at the Nature Center, both
singing occasionally.

That's all for now!  Enjoy the list and happy birding to all!  (Full list
below)
-Robb

Location:     DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve
Observation date:     4/15/08
Notes:     LOTS of Sapsuckers!!  Chilly to begin with (29) warming near the
end of hike (44).  Phoebe mending nest @ Loghouse.  Robins gathering nesting
material.  Several kinglets in various locations.
Number of species:     39

Canada Goose     X
Wood Duck     X
Mallard     X
Blue-winged Teal     5
Great Blue Heron     2
Turkey Vulture     1
Killdeer     X
Mourning Dove     X
Red-bellied Woodpecker     X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     5-8
Downy Woodpecker     X
Northern Flicker     X
Eastern Phoebe     X
Blue Jay     X
American Crow     X
Carolina Chickadee     X
White-breasted Nuthatch     X
Carolina Wren     X
Golden-crowned Kinglet     X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     1
Eastern Bluebird     2
Hermit Thrush     2
American Robin     X
Northern Mockingbird     1
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     X
Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
Chipping Sparrow     X
Field Sparrow     X
Song Sparrow     X
White-throated Sparrow     X
Dark-eyed Junco     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Common Grackle     X
Brown-headed Cowbird     X
American Goldfinch     1
House Sparrow     X

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

If you happen to be near the Greenville area, swing into one of our many
parks!  You can find park locations on our website or search for us on
Google Maps (under businesses).
--
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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