Walked from 7:30 am to about 11am this morning. Location: spring valley wla Observation date: 4/4/09 Number of species: 40 Canada Goose 12 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 2 Blue-winged Teal 20 Northern Shoveler 1 Lesser Scaup 2 Hooded Merganser 2 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Virginia Rail 1 American Coot 3 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 1 Tree Swallow 5 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 3 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 3 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 12 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Rusty Blackbird 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 20 Location: Caeser Creek Boat Ramp Observation date: 4/4/09 Notes: Osprey pair seemed to be building a nest on a stump in the water only about 3 feet out of the water. Number of species: 17 Canada Goose 8 Great Blue Heron 1 Osprey 2 Killdeer 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Ring-billed Gull 6 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 10 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]