We set out this morning looking for 50 species...we came away with 65 plus House Sparrows. :-D Below are the lists from today. I got up here early with my family and did the auto tour and got 40 species. Then we went to Magee and picked up another 10+ for the day. Then returned to Ottawa to get the Great Horned Owl...plus a couple more for the day. Then hit Metzger to pick up a Herring Gull and a Sandhill Crane. Once again Black Swamp has exceded expectations! Happy birdingand God bless! Steve J Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area, Lucas, Ohio, US Apr 16, 2016 5:05 PM - 5:49 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: 22 species Canada Goose 18 Mute Swan 1 Mallard 4 Lesser Scaup 100 Ruddy Duck 100 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 3 Bald Eagle 2 American Coot 50 Sandhill Crane 1 Killdeer 2 Bonaparte's Gull 75 Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 2 Tree Swallow 50 American Robin 6 European Starling 100 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 75 Common Grackle 50 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28989393 Magee Marsh Wildlife Area--Boardwalk, Lucas, Ohio, US Apr 16, 2016 1:25 PM - 4:02 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 35 species Wood Duck 2 Mallard 3 Blue-winged Teal 3 Northern Shoveler 10 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 5 Great Egret 1 Bald Eagle 4 American Coot 100 Killdeer 2 American Woodcock 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 3 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 5 Tree Swallow 200 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Brown Creeper 6 Winter Wren 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14 Hermit Thrush 7 American Robin 20 European Starling 25 Dark-eyed Junco 4 White-throated Sparrow 11 Song Sparrow 4 Eastern Towhee 1 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Common Grackle 40 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28988165 Magee Marsh Wildlife Area--Beach West, Lucas, Ohio, US Apr 16, 2016 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: 3 species Greater Scaup 3 Ruddy Duck 2 Ring-billed Gull 3 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28985722 Ottawa NWR--Wildlife Drive (Ottawa Co.), Ottawa, Ohio, US Apr 16, 2016 4:18 PM - 5:06 PM Protocol: Traveling 7.0 mile(s) Comments: <br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.0.4 8 species Pied-billed Grebe 3 Snowy Egret 3 Turkey Vulture 2 Dunlin 30 Great Horned Owl 1 Baby Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Hermit Thrush 2 House Sparrow 20 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28988357 Ottawa NWR--Wildlife Drive (Ottawa Co.), Ottawa, Ohio, US Apr 16, 2016 9:28 AM - 11:38 AM Protocol: Traveling 7.0 mile(s) Comments: 40 species Canada Goose 30 Trumpeter Swan 18 Gadwall 60 American Wigeon 2 Mallard 40 Blue-winged Teal 100 Northern Shoveler 50 Green-winged Teal 45 Lesser Scaup 4 Bufflehead 10 Ruddy Duck 30 Horned Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 10 American White Pelican 12 Saw take off. Giant white bird with black wingtips Great Blue Heron 10 Great Egret 25 Bald Eagle 6 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Coot 600 Killdeer 10 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 25 Lesser Yellowlegs 100 Dunlin 10 Pectoral Sandpiper 10 Wilson's Snipe 1 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Purple Martin 8 Tree Swallow 50 American Robin 25 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 10 White-throated Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 30 Red-winged Blackbird 300 Common Grackle 20 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 American Goldfinch 25 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28985724 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]