Hi Everyone, Yesterday, Beth and I took advantage of an additional auto tour day at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge that was announced on short notice. We decided to brave the predicted thunderstorms and high winds, and we were glad we did. The weather was cold and nasty and there was intermittent rain, but we got some good luck. Here¹s what we had at ONWR: Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Dunlin Wilson¹s Snipe Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Tufted Titmouse American Robin European Starling Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Brewer¹s Blackbird (there may be some doubt about this, but my memory is strong of females with dark eyes) Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle House Sparrow (What we missed, according to what we were told by birders in whom we have very great confidence, was Dowitcher and Pectoral Sandpiper) After Ottawa, we visited Magee Marsh and the boardwalk. There we had (listing only the additions to our day, not birds we had already seen at Ottawa): Mallard Bonaparte¹s Gull Herring Gull Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush‹really, the boardwalk area was alive with Hermit Thrushes. On days like this you think about what migration means‹terrific! Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Dark-eyed Junco (There, the same other birders had also had Northern Parula) And this morning (Sunday), we joined the first of the Traditional six-week Sunday Audubon walks in northeast Ohio. We joined the Shaker Lakes walk, where we also had a good morning. The birds we saw there were: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Osprey Killdeer Solitary Sandpiper Gull sp. Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Black-Capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch In all, if I¹m counting right, we had 67 species in all this weekend‹and a lot of fun. Best wishes to all, Steve Cagan Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] € www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan € www.stevecagan.blogspot.com 216-932-2753 (USA) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]