The Ottawa NWR Blue Goose Bus Trip went to Cedar Point NWR again today. It was a really great start with worm-eating warbler and then a Franklin's gull. It was then a little slow the rest of the trip. We did manage 80 species for the trip, including a great horned owl chick and a screech owl. These free trips will go to varying locations over the next few weeks including Darby Marsh, Cedar Point NWR and the north closed areas of Ottawa NWR. The bus is small so we do need people to register, but you can do so by simply calling 419-898-0014 and speaking to the person working the reception desk. Cedar Point NWR, Lucas, US-OH Apr 25, 2013 8:20 AM - 11:20 AM 80 species Canada Goose 70 Trumpeter Swan 4 Wood Duck 4 Gadwall 1 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 1 Blue-winged Teal 20 Northern Shoveler 6 Green-winged Teal 50 Canvasback 2 Greater Scaup 1 Lesser Scaup 5000 Bufflehead 2 Ruddy Duck 325 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 14 Great Blue Heron 55 Great Egret 40 Green Heron 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Northern Harrier 1 Bald Eagle 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 2 American Coot 2 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Dunlin 27 Bonaparte's Gull 215 Franklin's Gull 1 Bird seen on Potter's Pond sandbar with other gulls and terns by all field trip attendees. Ring-billed Gull 100 Herring Gull (American) 75 Caspian Tern 12 Common Tern 10 Forster's Tern 20 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue Jay 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Tree Swallow 150 Barn Swallow 20 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Carolina Wren 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 37 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 18 Eastern Bluebird 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 Hermit Thrush 13 American Robin 30 Brown Thrasher 8 European Starling 50 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 16 Eastern Towhee 10 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 15 Swamp Sparrow 10 White-throated Sparrow 50 Northern Cardinal 5 Red-winged Blackbird 500 Common Grackle 100 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]