White-faced Ibis - ONWR

Since mid-week, last week (first week in July) a white-faced ibis has been being observed at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. It was being seen at pool 2-A and also in the small pool near the entrance pool by the ONWR visitor center.

Reported to me by Martha Dykes.

Magee Marsh - Morning Birding 02/17

Note: The Boardwalk is icy and very noisy to walk on. The only birds that I heard here, were already on my list.

Tundra Swan
Mallard
Canada Goose
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Mourning Dove
House Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
Downy Woodpecker
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser

Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
American Crow
Bald Eagle
European Starling

The photographs are a Red-tailed Hawk eating breakfast.

A pair of wary Hooded Mergansers that didn't like my car pulling up next to the only open water on the east of the causeway. They flew before I pulled out to head for the boardwalk but were back on my return.

On and from Kelleys Island - 11/09/2008

While on Kelleys Island Laura and I (along with Tom & Paula Bartlett) saw thousands of Red-breasted Mergansers
a Black Scoter - (Life bird for Laura and I)
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
a Bald Eagle
two American Kestrel
Double-crested Commorant,
two Wilson's Snipe
a Killdeer
a Northern Harrier
Bonaparte's, Ring-billed and Herring Gull
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Red-breasted & Downy Woodpecker
American Crow
Canada Goose
Mallard
American Goldfinch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Slate-colored Junco
Northern Flicker
Common Loon
Eastern Bluebird
Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Brown Creeper
White-breasted Nuthatch
Great Blue Heron
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
and a Cooper's Hawk

Not bad considering 10 -20 mph winds from the South West and temperatures in the low 40's.