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Sean Williams and I spent 10 hours today birding Delaware County’s largest reservoirs: Hoover, Alum Creek, and Delaware. Waterfowl, loons, grebes, and gulls were plentiful at each site. Highlights were a RED-THROATED LOON (Hoover Dam), 2 RED-NECKED GREBES (Sunbury causeway and Smother’s causeway at Hoover), and 1 BREWER”S BLACKBIRD at Pond 1B in Delaware Wildlife Area. Multiple pipits and Tree Swallows were also exciting. At each stop we kept detailed numbers on water birds and made sure to count no bird twice.
HOOVER (not every species is listed)
1 Red-throated Loon
6 Common Loon – all in breeding plumage
4 Pied-billed Gebe
1 Red-necked Grebe
24 Horned Grebe
9 Double-crested Cormorant
4 Great Blue Heron
1 Mute Swan
~100 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
78 Mallard
2 Blue-winged Teal
6 Redhead
388 Ring-necked Duck
2 Greater Scaup
44 Lesser Scaup
124 Scaup sp.
29 Bufflehead
1 Common Goldeneye
63 Hooded Merganser
840 Red-breasted Merganser
3 Ruddy Duck
45 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
2 Cooper’s Hawk
4 Red-Tailed Hawk
52 American Coot
24 Killdeer
7 Herring Gull
350 Ring-billed Gull
3 Tree Swallow
1 Brown Creeper
4 American Pipit
2 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 Eastern Meadowlark
ALUM CREEK
1 Pied-billed Grebe
11 Horned Grebe
5 Ring-necked Ducks
2 Greater Scaup
262 Lesser Scaup
77 Bufflehead
18 Commom Goldeneye
2 Ruddy Duck
1 American Kestrel
2 Herring Gull
27 American Coot
15 Killdeer
21 Tree Swallow
10 American Pipit
DELAWARE
8 Horned Grebe
3 Pied-billed Grebe
20 Great Blue Heron
~65 Canada Goose
28 Wood Duck
8 Gadwall
41 American Wigeon
29 American Black Duck
110 Mallard
4 Blue-winged Teal
26 Northern Shoveler
29 Northern Pintail
36 Green-winged Teal
15 Canvasback
472 Redhead
871 Ring-necked Duck
7 Greater Scaup
357 Lesser Scaup
5 Bufflehead
65 Hooded Merganser
85 Red-breasted Merganser
7 Ruddy Duck
1 Bald Eagle
~3000 Ring-billed Gull
37 American Coot
7 Killdeer
1 American Woodcock
~2000 mixed blackbird – there is a nightly blackbird roost at Pond1B.
1 BREWER”S BLACKBIRD- female
Jack Stenger,
Ohio Wesleyan University
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