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Date: | Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:31:41 -0500 |
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Linda and I birded at Delaware Wildlife Area and Delaware Lake in Delaware
County today. Although much of the water is still iced over, there is
plenty of open water and everywhere there was open water there were very good
numbers of waterfowl. The large puddles created by the recent rain were
filled with activity from Canada geese and dabbling ducks to Killdeer. The
grassy fields to the side of Leonardsburg Road and Panhandle Road also yielded
some nice finds including male Northern Harriers, Ring-necked Pheasant and
a Merlin. The Columbus Blue Jackets have new competition, immature Bald
Eagles. We watched a small group of them using an unidentified cadaver as
their hockey puck. Either that or they were trying to display bad table
manners. We began with Leonardsburgh Road, entering from Horseshoe Road and
covering Area A. We next hopped up US 23 to the Delaware State Park covering the
areas that extent to the water. Next we continued north on US 23 to SR 229.
Going south on SR 229 we checked, in order, Areas M, G, F, E, D, C and B.
Every area we visited seemed to contribute a new species or two to our
tally. Assuming the Delaware Wildlife Area lives up to its past history the
best is yet to come.
Charlie Bombaci
SPECIES LIST
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 30+
Snow Goose 3
Canada Goose
Wood Duck 6
Gadwall 8
American Wigeon 21
American Black Duck 45
Mallard 200+
Northern Shoveler 7
Northern Pintail 211
Green-winged Teal 17
Canvasback 42
Redhead 100+
Ring-necked Duck 300+
Lesser Scaup 50+
Bufflehead 10
Common Goldeneye 3
Hooded Merganser 36
Red-breasted Merganser 18
Ruddy Duck 2
Bald Eagle 6 (all immature)
Northern Harrier 2 (males)
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
MERLIN
Ring-necked Pheasant
American Coot
Killdeer 49
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull 3
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Tree Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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