The Mountwood Bird Club from Parkersburg, WV visited Killbuck Marsh, Funk Bottoms and Mohican State Park last Thursday and Friday. Here is our list for the trip (compiled by Jon Benedetti). Highlights: Waterfowl: Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail (hundreds) Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck - (hundreds) Greater Scaup - a few Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe American Coot Raptors: *Bald Eagle - two nests with adults, and some younger birds flying and perched Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey **Sandhill Crane - 8-12 flying and two doing a courting dance *Lesser Yellowlegs *Pectoral Sandpiper *Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe *Horned Lark *Tree Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch *Brown Creeper American Tree Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark *Pine Siskin **Evening Grosbeak Other birds: Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Chickadee - sp. Both could be there. Carolina Chickadee - one rapid song/call heard Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Eastern Towhee Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow One member saw a bird he felt 80%+ sure was a Bobolink. We could not relocate it. Dick & Jeanette Esker Wood County West Virginia [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]