Lots of good birds yesterday at Killdeer Plains. Instead of adding a list for all the different places I went today, I combined all of them into one. Any and all ducks were mostly in pond one along the Marion/Wyandot border (Pond 27...or Pond 1 depending on your map). Grebes were everywhere. Yellow-rumps were as well. Sparrows were all along the way. Shorebirds were in every shallow watering hole. N. Pintails and W. Snipe were the birds of the day for me. List of birds are at the end of the email. IF you are a member of the Birding Ohio Facebook page, you already know about this part. For the non-Facebookers, I have created a game using eBird data...It is meant to be a game for advanced High School Students at my local High School. I have a Top 100 Scavenger Hunt for every month from October 2014 to December of 2015...a calender if you will. Birds are listed in Taxonomical order. Rankings are determined from the last ten complete years(2004-2013) of the frequency histogram data (Bar Charts) for Ohio on eBird: http://bit.ly/1s8M7zR. Each month's data is then averaged. The averaged numbers are then sorted highest to lowest and the top 100 are then put back into Taxonomical order. 50 is pretty easy to get, all 100 will require at least a trip to the northern half...or the southern half of the state almost every month...darn Chickadees anyways..:-D . I like seeing how some birds move up and down the list, meaning that every month is different. Because of the way the data is compiled, rare birds are pushed out of the list. Birds that are considered introduced or invasive are excluded. I have been looking for a way to share it with the rest of the Ohio birding community. The best thing I could come up with is to turn it into a PDF, and adding it to my dropbox acct. SO if you would like to play along...: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3220c8dw2w6czwu/Ohio%20Scavenger%20Hunt%202014-2015.pdf?dl=0 Birds from yesterday: Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Pintail Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Pectoral Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle American Goldfinch Happy Birding and God Bless! Steve J. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]