Below is the list of birds seen on the Ottawa NWR bus trip to Cedar Point NWR on Sunday, April 21st. We were out for 3 hours and saw 75 species, by far the highlight being 23 American Avocets, though you cannot ignore thousands of ducks on the lake either, it was very impressive. Thanks go out to Sherrie Duris, Dan Gesualdo, and Deb Tefft for really making this a noteworthy trip. There are many of these free trips planned over the next few weeks, some are specifically Cedar Point NWR trips and others are listed as Blue Goose Bus Trips, these will go to a destination determined that day. We will go where the birds are, but all will be to closed areas of the refuge. The full list of events can be found at http://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/March-May%20Public%20Program%20Schedule.pdf Bus trip dates with openings available are April 25, April 28, May 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. All trips are FREE but you must make reservations. If anyone has any questions, or to make a reservation please call the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge visitor center at 419-898-0014. Thank you, Rebecca Hinkle Canada Goose 30 Trumpeter Swan 4 Wood Duck 4 Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 3 Blue-winged Teal 150 Northern Shoveler 12 Green-winged Teal 25 Canvasback 1 Ring-necked Duck 6 Greater Scaup 2 Lesser Scaup 1000 Greater/Lesser Scaup 10000 Bufflehead 50 Hooded Merganser 1 Ruddy Duck 3500 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 18 Great Blue Heron 22 Great Egret 9 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 30 Sandhill Crane 3 Semipalmated Plover 6 Killdeer 3 American Avocet 23 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 19 Bonaparte's Gull 27 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 1 Caspian Tern 5 Forster's Tern 6 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Tree Swallow 11 Barn Swallow 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Winter Wren 2 Carolina Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 16 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 Swainson's Thrush 1 Hermit Thrush 3 American Robin 15 Brown Thrasher 3 European Starling 25 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 7 Eastern Towhee 2 American Tree Sparrow 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 8 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Common Grackle 25 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 American Goldfinch 2 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]