Ottawa auto tour and Magee sightings 19-Aug-2006

Ottawa NWR - Shorebirds & auto tour. 8:00 am - 1:30 pm

Goose Pen Area- open for Magee Marsh Shorebird walk
1. Short-billed Dowitchers
2. Greater Yellowlegs
3. Lesser Yellowlegs
4. Pectoral Sandpipers
5. Wilson's Snipe
6. Stilt Sandpipers - 2
7. Least Sandpipers
8. Semi-palmated Sandpiper
9. Killdeer

10. Common Terns - many places
11. Caspian Terns - goose pen
12. Great Egrets - many places
13. Snowy Egrets - goose pen
14. Green Heron - several places
15. Great Blue Heron & Black-crowned Night Heron
16. Mallard - goose pen
17. N. Shoveler - 4 - goose pen
18. Green-winged Teal - goose pen
19. Blue-winged Teal - auto tour
20. Wood Ducks - many places
21. R.b. Gulls - many places
22. Blue jay - auto tour
23. Bald Eagles - auto tour
24. P.b. Grebe - auto tour
25. Indigo Buntings - auto tour
26. C. Grackle, Red-winged Blackbirds, E. Starlings - auto tour
27. Field, Swamp, Song, Chipping & House Sparrows - auto tour
28. Tree, Barn, Bank Swallows, & Chimney Swifts - auto tour
29. Purple Martins - auto tour
30. Downy Woodpecker & N. Flicker - auto tour
31. Baltimore & possible Orchard Orioles - auto tour
32. Cedar Waxwings - auto tour
33. R.t. Hummingbirds - auto tour
34. Bobolinks - auto tour
35. C. Moorhens with 4 young chicks!!!!! - auto tour
36. Yellow, & C. Yellowthroat Warblers - auto tour
37. Warbling Vireo's - auto tour
38. Eastern Kingbirds - everywhere !!!!
39. A. Robins & E. Bluebirds - auto tour
40. Canada Geese- auto tour
41. M. Doves - everywhere
42. A. Goldfinch - everywhere
43. N. Harrier & Cooper's Hawk - auto tour
44. B. Kingfisher - auto tour
45. E. Phoebe - auto tour
46. Gray Catbird - auto tour
47. Carolina & Marsh Wren - auto tour
48. B.C. Chickadee - heard on auto tour
49. A. Coots - heard on auto tour
50. Least Bittern - heard at goose pen
51. N. Cardinal - auto tour

Some of Magee Marsh Boardwalk's Warblers & Vireo's
1. Yellow Warbler
2. Common Yellowthroat
3. Tennessee Warbler
4. Prothonotary Warbler
5. Magnolia Warbler
6. N. Waterthrush
7. Black-throated Blue Warbler
8. Cerulean Warbler
9. Red-eyed Vireo
10. Warbling Vireo

Crane Creek State Park Beach - behind bathroom house.
1. Marbled Godwit - 11:30 am to about 1:35 pm Then it flew towards the boardwalk and out into the marsh.

In addition, I observed the following shorebird species today at Magee/Ottawa/Maumee Bay State Park:

Baird’s Sandpiper
Sanderling
Wilson’s Phalarope
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher (probable; we had five worn adult dowitchers that appeared to be Long-billed.)
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper

Also, I saw the Marbled Godwit on the Crane Creek beach at 12:25 pm.