I am reporting (after returning home) on my birding in the Lake Erie area from 12/17-12/19. Two life birds for me! Great Black-backed Gulls and Trumpter Swans (two with neck bands.) Location: Magee Marsh Wildlife Area (Lucas Co.) Observation date: 12/17/09 Dawn until 10:45AM Number of species: 12 Canada Goose X Hooded Merganser 2 Bald Eagle 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 4 Downy Woodpecker 3 Blue Jay 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Hermit Thrush 1 American Tree Sparrow 25 Northern Cardinal 7 American Goldfinch 11 Location: Ottawa NWR (Ottawa Co.) Observation date: 12/17/09 11AM until 1:15PM Number of species: 15 Canada Goose 500 swan sp. 500 Mallard 200 Great Blue Heron 5 Bald Eagle 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 5 Black-capped Chickadee 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 European Starling X American Tree Sparrow 30 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 5 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Location: East Harbor SP Observation date: 12/18/09 8:15AM to Noon Number of species: 26 Canada Goose 50 Mute Swan 60 Trumpeter Swan 3 Mallard 35 Bufflehead 9 Common Goldeneye 12 Common Merganser 15 Great Blue Heron 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Bonaparte's Gull 75 Ring-billed Gull 300 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 2 European Starling 1 American Tree Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 5 Location: Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve Observation date: 12/18/09 12:45PM until 2:10PM Number of species: 19 Canada Goose 35 American Black Duck 15 Mallard 15 Red-breasted Merganser 35 Bald Eagle 1 Dunlin 5 Ring-billed Gull 500 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 5 Blue Jay 7 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 American Robin 2 White-throated Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 3 American Goldfinch 3 Location: Sandy Ridge Reservation Observation date: 12/19/09 7:45AM until 9AM, Light snow Number of species: 15 Snow Goose 1 Canada Goose 3000 Mallard 200 American Coot 3 Mourning Dove 4 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 6 Blue Jay 5 Black-capped Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 European Starling X Swamp Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Northern Cardinal 9 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Charles Crawford Henderson, KY ______________________________________________________________________ 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]