Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
Auto Tour
July 18, 2009
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Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society Field Trip Saturday, July 18, 2009 Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Auto Tour
Families of Pied-billed Grebes and Common Moorhens and a singing Dickcissel were the highlights of the WCAS auto tour at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. In fact Common Moorhens and Pied-billed Grebes appeared at several locations along the tour. A couple of Black-bellied Plovers offered nice scope views in the one section with shorebird habitat. Other shorebirds were too distant to enjoy. With the Plovers was a flock of 45 or more Great Egrets, with at least one Snowy Egret. Three species of tern and five species of swallow made this a great birding day. Did I mention that we saw 4 Bald Eagles at one location?
Sunny, breezy 70-degree weather and the after-tour hospitality of Dave and Laurie made it just perfect.
62 species
Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Common Moorhen American Coot Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forsters Tern Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Willow Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Orchard Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
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 Ottawa birders © Page Stephens
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