The Mountwood Bird Club from Parkersburg, WV visited Killbuck Marsh, Funk Bottoms and Mohican State Park last Thursday and Friday. Here is our list for the trip (compiled by Jon Benedetti).

Highlights:

Waterfowl:

Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail (hundreds)
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck - (hundreds)
Greater Scaup - a few
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
American Coot

Raptors:

*Bald Eagle - two nests with adults, and some younger birds flying and perched
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel

 Wild Turkey
**Sandhill Crane - 8-12 flying and two doing a courting dance
*Lesser Yellowlegs
*Pectoral Sandpiper
*Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
*Horned Lark
*Tree Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
*Brown Creeper
American Tree Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
*Pine Siskin
**Evening Grosbeak

Other birds:

Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull 
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chickadee - sp.  Both could be there.
Carolina Chickadee - one rapid song/call heard
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

One member saw a bird he felt 80%+ sure was a Bobolink.
We could not relocate it.

Dick & Jeanette Esker
Wood County
West Virginia
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