This afternoon the Darke County Birders went to the Darke Wildlife Area to look for rails.  No luck on the rails.
Top birds for the afternoon were 5 hooded mergansers and 3 swamp sparrows.
Later, I checked out some flooded fields west of Greenville and found 21 greater yellowlegs.


Location:     Darke Wildlife Area
Observation date:     4/12/08
Notes:     Darke County birders' outing
Number of species:     18

Canada Goose     4
Wood Duck     4
Mallard     2
Hooded Merganser     5
Killdeer     2
Rock Pigeon     1
Mourning Dove     4
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     1
Tree Swallow     4
American Robin     14
European Starling     8
Song Sparrow     5
Swamp Sparrow     3
Red-winged Blackbird     15
Eastern Meadowlark     1
Common Grackle     1
Brown-headed Cowbird     3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)


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