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E Mahoning Co. migrants
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Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
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Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:27:40 -0700
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Wow day today in E Mahoning Co.  Waterbirds were in good numbers and variety at Evans L. and Pine L.  this afternoon.  In the morning I searched for landbird migrants near home.  Birds in Poland/Coitsville Twps. included: imm. white SNOW GOOSE (found on 4/4 w/Canadas in a cornstubble field, today w/Canadas at a farm pond a couple miles away), n. shovelers, lesser scaups, 18 buffleheads at three ponds (a good omen), ruddy ducks, wild turkeys, Cooper's hawk, belted kingfisher, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, n. flickers, pileated woodpecker, e. phoebes (including a pair at a regular nesting spot), tree swallows, golden-crowned kinglet, e. bluebirds, e. towhees, fox sparrow, vesper sparrow, dark-eyed juncos, e. meadowlarks, and rusty blackbirds.  The young great horned owl continues to fatten up at the Lowellville nest.  At Evans L.: 35 gadwalls, n. shovelers, canvasbacks, redheads, ring-necked ducks, 2 greater scaup, 75 lesser scaup, pair of SURF
 SCOTERS, 150 buffleheads, hooded mergansers, 100+ red-breasted mergansers, 250 ruddy ducks, 7 pied-billed grebes, 25 horned grebes, 2 AM. WHITE PELICANS (found by Bob & Denise Lane), 3 great egrets, Bonaparte's gulls, Caspian tern, e. phoebe, tree & barn swallows, and Carolina wren.  At Pine L.: n. shovelers, 10 canvasbacks, ring-necked ducks, 175 lesser scaup, 14 LONG-TAILED DUCKS (they headed out in early evening though), 90 buffleheads, hooded & red-breasted mergansers, 200 ruddy ducks, c. loon, pied-billed & horned grebes, osprey, Bonaparte's gulls, belted kingfisher, tree swallows, golden-crowned kinglet, and e. bluebirds.  Craig Holt, Lowellville 




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