The auto tour was pretty hot , humid, & buggy, but not without its highlights. Most of the shorebirds were seen at the first right hand turn past the Crane Creek overpass. Shorebird habitat was fair. Other highlights were the numerous Marsh Wrens, some which allowed great looks and a couple of groups of Common Moorhens with young. Location: Ottawa NWR (Ottawa Co.) Observation date: 7/19/08 Number of species: 56 Canada Goose 45 Trumpeter Swan 1 Gadwall 2 Mallard 6 Green-winged Teal 12 Ruddy Duck 2 Pied-billed Grebe 6 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 13 Great Egret 25 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Bald Eagle 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sora 3 Common Moorhen 13 American Coot 5 Killdeer 10 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 10 Least Sandpiper 12 Dunlin 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 3 Wilson's Snipe 1 Ring-billed Gull 6 Forster's Tern 3 Mourning Dove 10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Blue Jay 1 Tree Swallow X Barn Swallow 10 House Wren 7 Sedge Wren 1 Marsh Wren 23 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 7 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling X Cedar Waxwing X Yellow Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat X Field Sparrow 15 Song Sparrow 20 Swamp Sparrow 12 Northern Cardinal 6 Indigo Bunting 10 Dickcissel 2 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle X American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org See you on the trails, Chris Pierce N. Olmsted, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]