Yesterday, Sunday 3/13, Mike Bracken and I made a loop through the Castalia area, Pipe Creek and Sandy Ridge. Sandy Ridge was very productive and is listed below. Of note is the Sandhill Crane in the SW corner of the main pond and the Rough-legged Hawk we observed hunting in the fields of the housing development immediately to the east. There was a good variety of dabbling ducks at Castalia Pond and in flooded fields south of Castalia on Maple Avenue including: Pintail, Wigeon, Gadwall, Tundra Swans, and an Eastern Bluebird and Cedar Waxwings. Pipe Creek had large numbers of diving ducks including: Ring-necked, Lesser Scaup, Canvasbacks, Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers and Horned Grebes. Total species count for the day was 50. Location: Sandy Ridge Reservation Observation date: 3/13/11 Number of species: 37 Canada Goose 187 Mute Swan 2 Gadwall 26 Mallard 29 Redhead 31 Ring-necked Duck 43 Lesser Scaup 37 Bufflehead 8 Hooded Merganser 27 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 3 Horned Grebe 13 Turkey Vulture 7 Bald Eagle 2 Northern Harrier 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rough-legged Hawk 1 American Coot 33 Sandhill Crane 1 Killdeer 1 Ring-billed Gull 34 Herring Gull 3 Mourning Dove 4 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 6 Black-capped Chickadee 7 Tufted Titmouse 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 American Robin 134 European Starling 188 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 15 Common Grackle 13 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow 1 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]