We had about 10 for a day on our small lake down here in Lawrence county.
They only stayed a day- I was hoping that they would want to make it their
home.
Hayward Chappell
Lawrence County
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Wendy Wren <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We had a pair of Hooded Mergansers on our pond for about 30 minutes early
> this evening. West of West Liberty in Northern Champaign county.
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> --- On Tue, 3/1/11, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Delaware Wildlife Area and Delaware Lake in Delaware
> County
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 7:31 PM
>
>
> Linda and I birded at Delaware Wildlife Area and Delaware Lake in Delaware
> County today. Although much of the water is still iced over, there is
> plenty of open water and everywhere there was open water there were very
> good
> numbers of waterfowl. The large puddles created by the recent rain were
> filled with activity from Canada geese and dabbling ducks to Killdeer. The
> grassy fields to the side of Leonardsburg Road and Panhandle Road also
> yielded
> some nice finds including male Northern Harriers, Ring-necked Pheasant and
> a Merlin. The Columbus Blue Jackets have new competition, immature Bald
> Eagles. We watched a small group of them using an unidentified cadaver as
> their hockey puck. Either that or they were trying to display bad table
> manners. We began with Leonardsburgh Road, entering from Horseshoe Road
> and
> covering Area A. We next hopped up US 23 to the Delaware State Park
> covering the
> areas that extent to the water. Next we continued north on US 23 to SR
> 229.
> Going south on SR 229 we checked, in order, Areas M, G, F, E, D, C and B.
> Every area we visited seemed to contribute a new species or two to our
> tally. Assuming the Delaware Wildlife Area lives up to its past history
> the
> best is yet to come.
> Charlie Bombaci
> SPECIES LIST
> Great Blue Heron 1
> Turkey Vulture 30+
> Snow Goose 3
> Canada Goose
> Wood Duck 6
> Gadwall 8
> American Wigeon 21
> American Black Duck 45
> Mallard 200+
> Northern Shoveler 7
> Northern Pintail 211
> Green-winged Teal 17
> Canvasback 42
> Redhead 100+
> Ring-necked Duck 300+
> Lesser Scaup 50+
> Bufflehead 10
> Common Goldeneye 3
> Hooded Merganser 36
> Red-breasted Merganser 18
> Ruddy Duck 2
> Bald Eagle 6 (all immature)
> Northern Harrier 2 (males)
> Cooper's Hawk
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> MERLIN
> Ring-necked Pheasant
> American Coot
> Killdeer 49
> Ring-billed Gull
> Herring Gull 3
> Rock Pigeon
> Mourning Dove
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Downy Woodpecker
> Northern Flicker
> Blue Jay
> American Crow
> Horned Lark
> Carolina Chickadee
> Tufted Titmouse
> White-breasted Nuthatch
> Carolina Wren
> Eastern Bluebird
> American Robin
> Northern Mockingbird
> European Starling
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> American Tree Sparrow
> Field Sparrow
> Song Sparrow
> Swamp Sparrow
> White-throated Sparrow
> Dark-eyed Junco
> Northern Cardinal
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Rusty Blackbird
> Common Grackle
> Brown-headed Cowbird
> House Finch
> American Goldfinch
> House Sparrow
>
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