Great birding day close to home. We have 88 species birding Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area and Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area, both in Wayne County. Seems like the birds have found us even if they never got a good south wind to help them get here! BirdLog Checklist Summary for: May 1, 2015 Number of Checklists: 14 Number of Species: 88 Checklists included in this summary: (1): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Messner Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 8:15 AM (2): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Valley Rd. North Date: May 1, 2015, 9:06 AM (3): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Valley Rd. South Date: May 1, 2015, 9:35 AM (4): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Clark Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 10:11 AM (5): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Valley Rd. South Date: May 1, 2015, 10:29 AM (6): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Force Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 10:53 AM (7): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Cemetery Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 11:23 AM (8): Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Wright Marsh Date: May 1, 2015, 11:31 AM (9): Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area Date: May 1, 2015, 12:48 PM (10): Wilderness Rd. (Wayne Co.) Date: May 1, 2015, 1:38 PM (11): Schwartzwalder Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 2:06 PM (12): Fairview Cemetery, Shreve Date: May 1, 2015, 2:19 PM (13): Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area--Funk Rd. Date: May 1, 2015, 2:28 PM (14): County Road 1975 Date: May 1, 2015, 2:50 PM 46 Canada Goose -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(8),(9),(10),(11) 2 Mute Swan -- (8) 20 Wood Duck -- (1),(2),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9) 8 Gadwall -- (8) 14 American Wigeon -- (4),(9) 28 Mallard -- (2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(8),(9),(10) 34 Blue-winged Teal -- (5),(9),(10) 1 Northern Shoveler -- (9) 2 Northern Pintail -- (9) 6 Green-winged Teal -- (9),(10) 2 Ring-necked Duck -- (9) 13 Lesser Scaup -- (8),(10) 6 Bufflehead -- (8) 1 Hooded Merganser -- (4) 1 Pied-billed Grebe -- (4) 1 Horned Grebe -- (8) 5 Double-crested Cormorant -- (8),(10) 43 Great Blue Heron -- (1),(3),(4),(6),(8),(9),(10),(13) 1 Green Heron -- (7) 25 Turkey Vulture -- (1),(2),(3),(5),(6),(7),(9),(10),(13) 1 Osprey -- (8) 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk -- (1) 8 Bald Eagle -- (6),(9),(10) 3 Red-tailed Hawk -- (1),(7),(8) 5 Common Gallinule -- (6),(8) 50 American Coot -- (9) 8 Sandhill Crane -- (1),(5),(8),(9) 1 Killdeer -- (2) 2 Greater Yellowlegs -- (9) 11 Lesser Yellowlegs -- (6),(8),(11) 4 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs -- (9) 10 Bonaparte's Gull -- (8) 6 Ring-billed Gull -- (8) 2 Forster's Tern -- (8) 12 Mourning Dove -- (3),(4),(5),(8),(10),(11) 1 Great Horned Owl -- (9) 3 Chimney Swift -- (1) 1 Belted Kingfisher -- (4) 15 Red-headed Woodpecker -- (1),(2),(8),(13) 11 Red-bellied Woodpecker -- (1),(2),(3),(5),(8),(9),(13) 2 Downy Woodpecker -- (3) 1 Hairy Woodpecker -- (1) 4 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) -- (1),(3) 1 American Kestrel -- (14) 4 Eastern Phoebe -- (2),(5),(6),(7) 2 Eastern Kingbird -- (4) 4 White-eyed Vireo -- (1),(3),(6) 1 Yellow-throated Vireo -- (3) 1 Blue-headed Vireo -- (5) 3 Warbling Vireo -- (8),(9),(13) 16 Blue Jay -- (2),(3),(5),(6),(13) 15 American Crow -- (1),(2),(8),(11) 2 Horned Lark -- (11) 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- (8) 94 Tree Swallow -- (1),(2),(4),(6),(7),(8),(9) 11 Barn Swallow -- (4),(9),(10) 9 Carolina Chickadee -- (1),(2),(5) 21 Tufted Titmouse -- (1),(2),(3),(5),(9) 5 White-breasted Nuthatch -- (1),(2),(3),(5) 4 House Wren -- (1),(2),(3) 4 Marsh Wren -- (8) 2 Carolina Wren -- (3) 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- (1),(2),(5),(8) 5 Eastern Bluebird -- (2),(4),(7) 2 Wood Thrush -- (5) 27 American Robin -- (1),(2),(3),(5),(6),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12),(13) 4 Gray Catbird -- (2),(13) 3 Brown Thrasher -- (6),(12) 21 European Starling -- (1),(3),(7),(8),(9),(13) 1 American Pipit -- (11) 1 Northern Waterthrush -- (2) 2 Prothonotary Warbler -- (2),(3) 3 Common Yellowthroat -- (1),(4) 31 Yellow Warbler -- (1),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(13) 21 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) -- (1),(2),(3),(6) 2 Black-throated Green Warbler -- (5) 3 Eastern Towhee -- (3) 10 Chipping Sparrow -- (1),(3),(5),(6),(8),(9),(11),(12) 4 Field Sparrow -- (3),(5),(9) 49 Song Sparrow -- (1),(2),(3),(5),(6),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12),(13) 12 Swamp Sparrow -- (1),(2),(4),(5),(6),(9) 2 White-throated Sparrow -- (1) 68 Northern Cardinal -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9) 311 Red-winged Blackbird -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(10),(11),(13) 10 Rusty Blackbird -- (2) 33 Common Grackle -- (1),(5),(8),(13) 11 Brown-headed Cowbird -- (2),(3),(6),(10) 11 American Goldfinch -- (1),(9),(13) 5 House Sparrow -- (9),(11) Ken Ostermiller Westfield Center ______________________________________________________________________ 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]