Ohio eBird Hot Spots Reporting Ottawa NWR Auto Tour Bird Checklists on eBird If you wish to report your bird sightings to eBird (http://ebird.org/) from the Auto Tour at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, there are two eBird “hot spots” to receive your reports: Ottawa NWR—Auto Tour (Ottawa Co.) Ottawa NWR—Auto Tour (Lucas Co.) The south portion of the Auto Tour is in Ottawa County, the north portion is in Lucas Co. You are on the county line when the Auto Tour turns right (east) on Lucas-Ottawa Rd. Please keep two checklists of birds you see, one for each portion of the Auto Tour. The section in Ottawa County is about 2.4 miles; the section in Lucas County is 3 miles. eBird limits a “traveling” count to five miles or less and sorts your bird sightings by county, thus two “hot spots” to report your sightings. Sometimes the route of the Auto Tour varies, so you might want to set your odometer to record the actual miles you cover for each section. The Black Swamp Bird Observatory have a great map of Ottawa NWR showing the Auto Tour which you may download by visiting: http://www.bsbo.org/Birding/pdf/OttawaNWRMap-AutoTour.pdf Ken Ostermiller eBird Hot Spot reviewer for Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]