Hello all, I spent a few hours this morning birding Delaware Wildlife area (and getting rained on a bit), and it was a fairly birdy place. There were good numbers of birds in the thickets, though nothing like the late yellowthroat I was hoping for. I turned up 45 species, with a single flyover Snow Bunting (SNBU) and 6 Lapland Longspurs (LALO) being the highlights. A harrier was nice too, along with 12 Hooded Mergansers and 2 pintail. Location: Delaware State Park Observation date: 12/11/07 Number of species: 45 Canada Goose 20 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 9 Northern Pintail 2 Hooded Merganser 12 Northern Harrier 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 2 Bonaparte's Gull 70 Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 10 Mourning Dove 15 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Downy Woodpecker 8 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 8 Blue Jay 15 American Crow 15 Horned Lark 65 Carolina Chickadee 25 Tufted Titmouse 7 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 8 Carolina Wren 4 Eastern Bluebird 11 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 20 Cedar Waxwing 18 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 American Tree Sparrow 40 Song Sparrow 25 Swamp Sparrow 14 White-throated Sparrow 8 White-crowned Sparrow 18 Dark-eyed Junco 25 Lapland Longspur 6 Snow Bunting 1 Northern Cardinal 16 Red-winged Blackbird 13 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 House Finch 10 American Goldfinch 25 House Sparrow 5 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Good birding, Sean -- Sean Williams Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]