The Mountwood Bird Club from Parkersburg, WV visited Killdeer Plains WMA last Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, then stopped by Delaware WMA, Hoover Reservoir, and Putnam Landing in Zanesville on the way home on Friday.

Highlights were:
    Snow Goose - blue phase - 1
    Bald Eagle - many views of at least 7 eagles.
    Northern Harrier - 15+
    Rough-legged Hawk - 6 - 10
    Sharp-shinned Hawk
    Cooper's Hawk
    Ring-necked Pheasant - 2
    Barred Owl - 1 - heard
    Red-headed Woodpecker - 4
    Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
    NORTHERN SHRIKE - 1
    Horned Lark
    American Tree Sparrow - many
    Chipping Sparrow - 1 - Beth & Eula
    White-crowned Sparrow
    Lapland Longspur - 50+
    Snow Bunting - 150+
    COMMON REDPOLL  - 2 Delaware WMA

    Waterfowl:
    Canada Goose - several thousand
    Trumpeter Swan - 10
    Tundra Swan - 2
    Gadwall
    American Wigeon
    American Black Duck
    Mallard
    Northern Shoveler
    Northern Pintail
    Green-winged Teal
    Canvasback - Zanesville
    Redhead - Zanesville
    Ring-necked Duck
    Scaup - sp.
    Bufflehead
    Hooded Merganser
    American Coot

    Other birds:
    Great Blue Heron
    Turkey Vulture
    Red-tailed Hawk
    American Kestrel
    Wild Turkey 
    Killdeer
    Ring-billed Gull
    Rock Pigeon
    Mourning Dove
    Belted Kingfisher
    Red-bellied Woodpecker
    Downy Woodpecker
    Hairy Woodpecker
    Northern Flicker
    Blue Jay
    American Crow
    Carolina Chickadee
    Tufted Titmouse
    White-breasted Nuthatch
    Eastern Bluebird
    American Robin
    European Starling
    Song Sparrow
    Northern Cardinal
    Red-winged Blackbird
    Eastern Meadowlark
    Common Grackle
    American Goldfinch
    House Sparrow

Richard Esker
Wood County
West Virginia
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