Northwest Ohio Field Trip
For shorebirds



Saturday, July 31, 2010
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. a.m.

11 Members Led by Tom Bartlett Species List Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Cooper’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Carolina Wren European Starling American Robin Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Northern Cardinal Song Sparrow Indigo Bunting American Goldfinch House Sparrow

The banding station we visited was on private property  in Sandusky County. Mr. & Mrs. William McClure were our gracious hosts for the morning.

John Lortz and Master Bander, Tom Kashmer, using a canoe to return to the banding station from the mist nets.

Killdeer

Lesser Yellowlegs

Pectoral Sandpiper

Barb releasing the Pectoral Sandpiper

Swamp Mallow at the Winous Point Conservancy

A private marsh, almost 5,000 acres preserved

The Winous Point Shooting Club is the oldest duck hunting club in the United States. Hunting is done in the style of the mid-nineteenth century and these punt boats are still used today according to John Simpson, the Executive Director. Here is an article about duck hunting trends at Winous Point from 1863 to 1987.

Thank you Tom Bartlett for a great day of birding!