Yesterday, Sept. 1, Jeannine Ellison, Jeanette & Dick Esker and I went to
Pickerington Ponds (PP), Hoover Reservoir (HR), and Battelle
Darby Creek (DC) near Columbus. It was cool and rainy to start and
hot and sunny at the end. It was our first time at Darby Creek,
and we got great information and advice from the people in the
Naturalist office there.
Highlights:
Pied-billed Grebe - PP, HR, DC
Double-crested Cormorant - HR
Great Egret - PP, HR, DC
Green Heron - PP, HR
Wood Duck - PP, HR, DC
Blue-winged Teal - DC
Osprey - HR
Cooper's Hawk - PP
Sora - PP
Common Gallinule - PP
American Coot - DC
Semipalmated Plover - DC
Greater Yellowlegs - DC
Lesser Yellowlegs - DC
Solitary Sandpiper - PP, DC - including the all white one at PP
Spotted Sandpiper - HR
Semipalmated Sandpiper - DC
Least Sandpiper - DC
Pectoral Sandpiper - DC
Wilson's Snipe - PP
**Wilson's Phalarope - DC
Ring-billed Gull - HR
Herring Gull - HR
Caspian Tern - HR
Chimney Swift - PP, DC
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - PP
Red-headed Woodpecker - HR
Eastern Phoebe - PP
House Wren - PP
Savannah Sparrow - DC
Other birds seen:
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Jon Benedetti
Vienna, WV
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