On Saturday February 19th, Laura Alldridge and I took a leisurely drive out to Ottawa NWR for the auto tour. Sightings included: Rt. 2 & 269: Turkey Vulture, 2 East Harbor State Park – large numbers of waterfowl off the beach: Redhead Greater/Lesser Scaup Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Great Black Backed Gull East Harbor Marina: Mute Swan, 23 Great Blue Heron Northern Pintail American Wigeon Port Clinton area: Bald Eagle, Coopers Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Ottawa NWR: Sandhill Crane, 2 – fly over , and then circling the fields just west of Stange Rd Northern Shrike, just before Crane Creek bridge Tundra Swan Trumpeter Swan Cackling Geese, 2 - with Canada Geese at Crane Creek bridge Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Tree Sparrow Red-tailed Hawk Northern Harrier Bald Eagle Magee Marsh – sunset: Bald Eagle, 3 Northern Harrier, 4 (down from 8 in January) Short-eared Owl, 2 (still putting on a pretty good show) Cheers, Rita Schneider Cuyahoga County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]