I began an early day with a friend at Calamus Marsh near Circleville...

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Common Grackle
Downy Woodpecker
Red-winged Blackbird
Easter Towhee
Common Crow
Turkey Vulture
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Wood Duck
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Blue Jay
Carolina Wren
House Wren?
Rusty Blackbird? (probably, but I am still becoming familiar at
spotting them)

... and maybe a few other common birds that I might be forgetting.
Then we headed over to Marion State Park. On the lake we saw...

Tree Swallow
Canada Goose
Ruddy Duck
Double-crested Cormorant (a group standing on the opposite shore)
American Coot
Green Winged Teal
Scaup? (or maybe Ring-billed Duck, not sure)

... and a Belted Kingfisher that we watched bludgeon a crawfish on a
tree limb before gulping it down. Along the trail that goes around the
lake we saw...

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-rumped Warbler

... among other common birds that one would expect to find in the
thick trees along that trail.


Adam Cirone
B.A. in Biology from Muskingum College
Senior Reseach on Grassland Birds

Columbus, Ohio
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