Next Door at Ottawa NWR - 05/22/09

This morning a female Ruff was seen on the mud flats on Pool 2A. She was found during the morning bird walk. This sighting caused a lot of excitement.

NOTE:
The information in this and the May bird count posting are FYI as these reportings were several days old when I was notified of them.


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Magee Marsh Monthly Bird Count May 19

Birds seen and heard on the bird count between 6 AM and 11 AM. I didn’t have a scope, so waterfowl suffered as a consequence. The Kirtland’s has been hanging around for a couple days now, but it seems that the number of migrating birds is decreasing, though diversity of warblers is still high.

Wood duck
Mallard
Double-crested cormorant
Least bittern (heard on walking trail near Bird Center)
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Little blue heron
Green heron (quite a few)
Black-crowned night heron
Bald Eagle
American coot
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer
Ruddy turnstone
Semipalmated sandpiper
Dunlin
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Common tern
Mourning dove
Eastern screech owl
Downy woodpecker
Eastern wood-pewee
Willow flycatcher
Least flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Great crested flycatcher
Eastern kingbird
Warbling vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Blue jay
Purple martin
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
House wren
Marsh wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Gray-cheeked thrush
Swainson’s thrush
American robin
Gray catbird
Brown thrasher
European starling
Cedar waxwing
Scarlet tanager
Chipping sparrow
Song sparrow
Lincoln’s sparrow
Swamp sparrow
White-throated sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Northern cardinal
Red-winged blackbird
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Orchard oriole
Baltimore oriole
House finch
American goldfinch
House sparrow

Warblers:
Northern parula
Yellow
Chestnut-sided
Magnolia
Black-throated blue
Blackburnian
Kirtland’s (on walking trail near center)
Bay-breasted
Blackpoll
American redstart
Prothonotary
Northern waterthrush
Connecticut
Mourning
Common yellowthroat
Wilson’s
Canada

Posted on behalf of:

Jim Witter
Seasonal naturalist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area