Sean Williams and I birded Killdeer Plains today from 9:30-12:30. The highlight was a NORTHERN SHRIKE on CH-71, just east of TH-108. There were also 8 SNOW BUNTINGS along CH-68. Species list: 550 Canada Goose 8 Trumpeter Swan 4 Wood Duck 96 Gadwall 1 American Wigeon (Delaware Wildlife Area) 15 American Black Duck 40 Mallard 6 Northern Shoveler 5 Northern Pintail 24 Green-winged Teal 2 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Common Loon (Delaware Wildlife Area) 15 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 12 Great Blue Heron 7 Turkey Vulture 8 Bald Eagle 4 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 14 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Kestrel 420 American Coot 10 Killdeer 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER 3 Greater Yellowlegs 95 Bonaparte's Gull (Delaware Wildlife Area) 10 Ring-billed Gull (Delaware Wildlife Area) 60 Rock Pigeon 40 Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 8 Red-headed Woodpecker 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 10 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 12 Northern Flicker 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE 35 Blue Jay 20 American Crow 30 Horned Lark 25 Carolina Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 11 Eastern Bluebird 40 American Robin 500 European Starling 2 American Pipit 8 Cedar Waxwing 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 10 American Tree Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 60 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 35 Swamp Sparrow 25 White-throated Sparrow 35 White-crowned Sparrow 21 Dark-eyed Junco 8 SNOW BUNTING 20 Northern Cardinal 350 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Eastern Meadowlark 15 Common Grackle 40 Brown-headed Cowbird 15 House Finch 30 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow Jack Stenger Ohio Wesleyan University __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]