I checked the Magee Marsh property today and saw a few duck species on the
causeway and on the pond by the boardwalk. The water is high on the
boardwalk and was frozen around the edges this morning. The nice surprise
was the amount of Wood Ducks I scared-up while walking near 22B on the
eastern side; actually they scared me!! The total was 11 ducks! Here is a
list of what I saw this morning around the property.

First pond just past The Black Swamp Bird Observatory on the left
1. Trumpeter Swan - 2
2. Bald Eagle - 1 immature
3. Ring-billed Gull - 2

Road to the causeway
1. Dark-eyed Junco - 3
2. American Robin - 5
3. Song Sparrow - 2
4. Red-winged Blackbirds - everywhere now
5. Common Grackles - everywhere now
6. Rusty Blackbirds - heard several along the road
7. Canada Geese - several
8. ducks flying in all directions!!

Causeway

1. Pied-billed Grebe - 1
2. Mallard - 26
3. American Black Duck - 11
4. Gadwall - 45
5. Northern Shoveler - 12
6. American Wigeon - 14
7. Green-winged Teal - 12 my first of the year!
8. Ring-necked Duck - 12
9. Bufflehead - 2 (1 pair)
10. Common Merganser - 1 male
11. Hooded Merganser - 2
12. Common Goldeneye - 2
13. Great Blue Heron - 2
14. Bad Eagle - 1 immature
15. Ring-billed Gulls - many
16. Herring Gulls - a few seen
17. Canada Geese - everywhere
18. Red-winged Blackbirds - everywhere
19. Common Grackles - increasing by the day

Pond by the boardwalk
1. Bufflehead - 4
2. Canada Geese - 2

Boardwalk
1. Mallard - 4 (2 pair)
2. Wood Duck - 11 total at 22B all flushed-up at one time
3. Herring Gull - flyovers
4. Ring-billed Gull - flyovers
5. American Robin - 1 male only
6. European Starlings - several seen
7. Mourning Dove - 2
8. Northern Cardinal - 4 males setting-up territories
9. Common Grackles - everywhere
10 Red-winged Blackbirds - everywhere setting-up territories
11. Rusty Blackbirds - saw 1 heard 3 others.
12. Song Sparrows - 6; they have arrived



PS Mark & Julie Shieldcastle had an American Woodcock flush-up on them early
this morning on the John Gallagher Walking Trail behind the Black Swamp Bird
Observatory building. Spring is almost here; yes.

Happy Birding Everyone

Chris Knoll



Christopher J. Knoll

Education Director

Black Swamp Bird Observatory

13551 West State Route 2

Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449

Phone: 419-898-4070

Fax: 419-898-1363




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