The monthly bird count for the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area was held on August 16, 2011. There were three people in attendance and it was a beautiful morning! The skies were as clear as could be! The following birds were seen or heard during the count: Double crested cormorant Great blue heron Great egret Black-crowned night heron Trumpeter swan Mallard Wood duck Cooper's hawk Bald eagle Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Herring Gull Ring-billed gull Common tern Caspian tern Mourning dove Black-billed cuckoo Ruby-throated hummingbird Northern flicker Downy woodpecker Eastern kingbird Least flycatcher Eastern wood-pewee Tree swallow Barn swallow Black-capped chickadee House wren Marsh wren Gray catbird American robin Cedar waxwing European starling Warbling vireo Prothonotary warbler Northern waterthrush Common yellowthroat Red-winged blackbird Baltimore Oriole Common grackle Brown-headed cowbird Northern Cardinal Indigo bunting Song sparrow House finch American goldfinch House sparrow Mary L. Warren Wildlife Communications Specialist Magee Marsh Wildlife Area 13229 W. State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449 419-898-0960 #31 FAX: 419-898-4017 [log in to unmask] Keep the WILD in Ohio, learn how you can help @ wildohiostamp.com <http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/ExperienceWildlifeSubHomePage/conservat ionstamp/tabid/21476/Default.aspx> "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." John Burroughs ______________________________________________________________________ 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]