As previously reported, Jack Stenger and I had an amazing morning. We visited Hoover and Delaware Lake area and ended with 75 species on our run. Google map of highlight birds and list below with comments: http://tinyurl.com/6jou2s Observation date: 10/26/08 Number of species: 75 Canada Goose X Gadwall 15 American Wigeon 1 American Black Duck 1 Mallard X Blue-winged Teal 20 Northern Shoveler 4 Green-winged Teal 2 Hooded Merganser 6 Common Merganser 2, female plumaged birds, north of the Sunbury Rd. causeway Ruddy Duck 20 Ring-necked Pheasant 1, north end of Delaware Lake Pied-billed Grebe 25 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN 1, actively flying and feeding, north of Sunbury Rd. causeway, then seen Hoover boardwalk Double-crested Cormorant 55 Great Blue Heron 16 BLACK VULTURE 8, soaring high over Hoover boardwalk, one group of four, one group of two, then separate birds Turkey Vulture X Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 360 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 8, scattered birds on mudflats at Hoover boardwalk Killdeer 280 Greater Yellowlegs 11 WILLET 1, Hoover boardwalk HUDSONIAN GODWIT 2, Hoover boardwalk SANDERLING 4, Hoover boardwalk Least Sandpiper 2 DUNLIN 10, Hoover boardwalk Bonaparte's Gull 270, large group north of the Sunbury Rd. causeway, and some at Delaware Lake FRANKLIN'S GULL 21, north of the Sunbury Rd. causeway. An impressive number of birds in various plumages in large mixed flock of Ring-billeds, Herrings, and Bonaparte's Gulls on a sandbar. Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull 3 Rock Pigeon X Mourning Dove X Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1, north end of Delaware Lake Downy Woodpecker X Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay X American Crow X Horned Lark 5 Tree Swallow 9 Carolina Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch X Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren X Winter Wren 1, Delaware Run Golden-crowned Kinglet X Eastern Bluebird 1 American Robin X Gray Catbird 1 European Starling X Cedar Waxwing X Yellow-rumped Warbler 30 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow X Swamp Sparrow 12 White-throated Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco X LAPLAND LONGSPUR 1, Hoover boardwalk Northern Cardinal X Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 2500 Brown-headed Cowbird 225 House Finch X PINE SISKIN 7, Delaware Run (6) and Hoover boardwalk (1) American Goldfinch X House Sparrow X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Good birding, Sean -- Sean Williams Ohio Wesleyan University Lab of Dr. Jed Burtt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]