Location: Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area Observation date: 5/21/10 Notes: Rapture Day!!!! Number of species: 41 Canada Goose 75 Wood Duck 5 Mallard 8 Bufflehead 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 15 Great Egret 10 Turkey Vulture 22 Osprey 2 Bald Eagle 12 [3 adults, 2 second year juv, 7 juvi's] Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 7 American Coot 4 Killdeer 22 Ring-billed Gull 6 Herring Gull 8 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 3 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 5 Northern Flicker 5 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue Jay 9 American Crow 3 Tree Swallow 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 12 Marsh Wren 1 American Robin 15 European Starling 18 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle 11 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 8 House Sparrow 4 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]