The highlight of today's count is the 1167 Ring-billed Gulls.  This may well
turn out to be the year's peak count.  I have seen as many as 2,000 on the
lake at one time.

I see I have neglected to indicate that the lake is now about 55% open
water.

Cheers,

Bob

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Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Cowan Lake , 3/10/10
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Location:     Cowan Lake
Observation date:     3/10/10
Notes:     64F, Winds: calm, sky: bkn, lake level: +0.8', boats: 0
Number of species:     28

Canada Goose     50
Wood Duck     4
Gadwall     2
American Wigeon     20
American Black Duck     2
Mallard     207
Northern Shoveler     2
Northern Pintail     6
Green-winged Teal     14
Canvasback     14
Redhead     13
Ring-necked Duck     25
Lesser Scaup     20
Bufflehead     6
Common Goldeneye     1
Common Merganser     1
Ruddy Duck     10
Common Loon     1
Bonaparte's Gull     8
Ring-billed Gull     1167
Herring Gull     5
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
American Crow     7
Carolina Chickadee     1
Song Sparrow     3
Northern Cardinal     1

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



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Robert D Powell
Congress Farm Research Institute
Wilmington, OH, USA
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Nulla dies sine aves

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