This is a private wetland on a very low traffic road.  I don't trespass, but
you can see almost the whole wet area from the road.
The pharlaope was feeding right beside killdeer and plovers, etc. in the
shallow water and not swimming.
There were also possible Baird's sandpipers.   Our identification prowess is
still poor when it comes to peeps.
It is interesting also that there is a pair of pintail ducks that have been
there all spring and are still there.


> Woods Road Wetland, Darke, US-OH
> May 24, 2012 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 1.5 mile(s)
> Comments:     Cindy Ploch, Pat McCarthy and I were the observers.
> 24 species (+1 other taxa)
>
> Canada Goose  6
> Mallard  10
> Northern Pintail  2
> Great Blue Heron  1
> Semipalmated Plover  25
> Killdeer  15
> Spotted Sandpiper  2
> Semipalmated Sandpiper  8
> Least Sandpiper  3
> Dunlin  3
> peep sp.  20
> Red-necked Phalarope  1     Thought to be a female because red at neck was
> not as well defined as males in Peterson's newest edition.  Black beak,
> black legs, white line at eye, head all dark above with whte on face.
> Mourning Dove  2
> Eastern Kingbird  1
> American Crow  2
> Horned Lark  1
> Tree Swallow  2
> Barn Swallow  4
> American Robin  6
> European Starling  5
> Chipping Sparrow  1
> Song Sparrow  1
also forgot a dickcissel singing
> Red-winged Blackbird  20
> Eastern Meadowlark  1
> Common Grackle  2
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

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