To add to Chris' excellent report about this weekend, and to continue the phoebe reports, I saw an Eastern Phoebe along the dike that separates Lake Erie from the marsh at Metzger after the majority of the group departed on Sunday. Unlike the one that has been calling its name at my house in SW Ohio for the past week, this bird was silent, just bobbing its tail in the weeds along the trail. <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> Not to be too picky, Chris, but I think you meant to say that the Tundra Swans were at Ottawa. <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> The whole weekend was lots of fun, especially Norman Smith's talks on Snowy Owls and the many other raptors he has studied and banded over the years. I really loved the many photos of his two "assistants" (his young son and daughter) holding hawks and owls. <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> ~Kathi Hutton <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> Felicity, Clermont County <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> http://katdocsworld.blogspot.com <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> / <http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=3DOHIO-BIRDS> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:20:43 -0400 From: Chris Knoll <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Subject: BSBO Annual Banquet Field Trips Here is our bird list for today from Metzger and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. 1. Canada Geese - both places 2. Mute Swan - Metzger 3. Trumpeter Swan - both places 4. Tundra Swan - Metzger 5. Wood Duck - 2 flyovers at Ottawa 6. Gadwall - both places 7. American Wigeon - both places 8. American Black Duck - Ottawa 9. Mallard - both places 10. Northern Shoveler - Ottawa 11. Northern Pintail - Metzger 12. Green-winged Teal - both places 13. Canvasback - Metzger 14. Redhead - both places 15. Ring-necked Duck - both places 16. Lesser Scaup - Metzger 17. Bufflehead - both places 18. Hooded Merganser - Ottawa 19. Common Merganser - Metzger 20. Ruddy Duck - Metzger 21. Pied-billed Grebe - both places 22. Horned Grebe - both places 23. Great Blue Heron - both places 24. Great Egret - (2) - Ottawa parking lot 25. Black-crowned Night Heron - Metzger 26. Bald Eagle - both places 27. Northern Harrier - Metzger 28. Red-tailed Hawk - Ottawa 29. American Coot - both places 30. Sandhill Cranes - 4 - calling and flying; Ottawa 31. Killdeer - both places 32. Wilson's Snipe - Ottawa 33. Ring-billed Gull - Ottawa 34. Herring Gull - Metzger 35. Mourning Dove - both places 36. Great-horned Owl on nest - Ottawa 37. Red-bellied Woodpecker - Ottawa 38. Downy Woodpecker - both places 39. N. Flicker - both places 40. American Crow - Ottawa 41. Horned Lark - Metzger 42. Tree Swallow - Ottawa 43. Winter Wren - Metzger 44. American Robin - both places 45. Yellow-rumped Warbler - Ottawa parking lot fly-over 46. European Starling - Metzger 47. American Tree Sparrow - Ottawa 48. Song Sparrow - both places 49. White-throated Sparrow - Metzger 50. Northern Cardinal - both places 51. RWBB - both places 52. Eastern Meadowlark - Metzger 53. Rusty Blackbird - Ottawa 54. C. Grackle - both places 55. Brown-headed Cowbird - Metzger 56. American Goldfinch - 1 male - Ottawa Later birding fans, Chris Knoll Education Director Black Swamp Bird Observatory Call us anytime: 419-898-4070 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]