Sorry for the late post, but my computer would not let me on the internet (?).  Over the last 3 days, Shaune Skinner, Joan Frederick, and I have seen a total of 26 Bald Eagles.  During Sunday's Ottawa NWR auto tour (7-8 miles N of Oak Harbor between SR 2 and Lake Erie), we counted 14 (mix of adults and juveniles).  We witnessed one of the adults sitting atop a tree in the sunlight spreading his/her wings like a vulture does.  Anybody ever seen this ?  Yesterday, we saw an additional 1 adult at Sheldon's Marsh (between Sandusky and Huron near Lake Erie shore), then 8 juveniles at Killdeer Plains and 3 adults at Big Island Wildlife Areas.  Killdeer is approx. 6-7 miles west of US 23 taking SR 294 thru Harpster, and Big Island is approx. 5-6 miles east of La Rue along La Rue-Prospect Road. The eight eagles at Killdeer were all sitting together in 2 adjacent trees on the north side of the large wetland along CH 68 (park at lot J).  Other birds at these areas were as follows:

Sheldon Marsh:

Sharp-Shinned Hawk - 1
Great Blue Heron - 2
Red-Bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Yellow-Rumped Warbler - 4
American Goldfinch - 1
Carolina Wren - 1
Chickadee - 1
Northern Cardinal - 10
Blue Jay - 4
American Robin - 105
Red-Winged Blackbird - 25
White-Breasted Nuthatch - 3
Dark-Eyed Junco - 2
Ring-Billed Gull - many
Mallard - 4
Canada Goose - 1

Killdeer Plains:

Red-Tailed Hawk 5
American Kestrel - 1
Northern Harrier - 2
Northern Flicker - 9
Red-Headed Woodpecker - 5
Great Blue Heron - 4
Northern Shoveler - 1
American Coot - 200
Mallard - 150
Tundra Swan - 30
Canvasback - 1
Gadwall - 1
Tree Sparrow - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1
Blue Jay - 5
American Crow - 2
Mourning Dove - 1
Pigeon - 1
Horned Lark - 4
Brown-Headed Cowbird - 150
Chickadee - 1

Big Island:

Northern Harrier - 1
American Kestrel - 1
Red-Tailed Hawk - 1


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