Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
Field Trip
August 12, 2012
Report | Photos by Penny O'Connor |
Western
Cuyahoga Audubon Society Shorebird Field
Trip at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge August 12, 2012 Leader: Ethan
Kistler A private tour
of the Ottawa National Refuge yielded 56 bird species, including 9
shorebird species. Mild
weather made for a pleasant picnic by hummingbirds at Black Swamp
Bird Observatory. 19 Birders,
56 Bird Species
Bird List Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Mallard Pied-billed
Grebe Double-crested
Cormorant Great Blue
Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned
Night Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern
Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine
Falcon Black-bellied
Plover Semipalmated
Plover Killdeer Lesser
Yellowlegs Spotted
Sandpiper Semipalmated
Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral
Sandpiper Short-billed
Dowitcher Bonaparte's
Gull Ring-billed
Gull Caspian Tern Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated
Hummingbird Belted
Kingfisher Downy
Woodpecker Northern
Flicker Eastern Phoebe Eastern
Kingbird Blue Jay Purple Martin Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped
Chickadee American Robin Gray Catbird European
Starling Cedar Waxwing Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern
Cardinal Indigo Bunting Red-winged
Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American
Goldfinch House Sparrow |
Ottawa birders One of Ottawa NWR's ponds Virginia Creeper Birding along the dikes |