Susan Nash and I birded the Dillon Wildlife Area wetlands off Pleasant Valley Road, in Muskingum Co., from 5 to 8:30, with temperature ranging from 77 at 5 a.m., to 85 at 8:30. Hot, hot, hot.
We saw a lot of fledged young, including great blue herons, red-headed woodpeckers, prothonotary warblers and hatch-year bald eagles. This must have been a banner year for great blues!
From eBird:
3 Canada Goose
6 Wood Duck
48 Great Blue Heron
2 Green Heron
3 Bald Eagle, 1 adult, 2 immature
1 Red-tailed Hawk
3 Killdeer
3 Mourning Dove
1 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Belted Kingfisher
5 Red-headed Woodpecker, 3 adult, 2 juvenile
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
2 Hairy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
3 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Acadian Flycatcher
2 Eastern Phoebe
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Warbling Vireo
5 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
8 Tree Swallow
4 Carolina Chickadee
3 White-breasted Nuthatch, 2 adult, 1 juvenile
2 Carolina Wren
5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 adult, 3 juveniles
3 Wood Thrush
4 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
25 European Starling
6 Prothonotary Warbler, 4 adults, 2 fledglings being fed by parents
4 Common Yellowthroat
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Field Sparrow
7 Song Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinal
8 Indigo Bunting
2 Red-winged Blackbird
32 Common Grackle
3 American Goldfinch
Margaret Bowman
Newark, Licking Co., OH
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