Watch Terri and Chucks big day on Countday.org

[Chuck AndersonParticipant]

Terri and I are doing a modified a Roth Coast Open starting at 5 today and ending 5 Saturday. We will start adding birds to countday about 4 am tomorrow. Follow along at countday.org

[Chuck AndersonParticipant]

Finished with 138 Sp

Canada Goose 1
Mute Swan 1
Trumpeter Swan 1
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 1
Mallard 1
Blue-winged Teal 1
Bufflehead 1
Ruddy Duck 1
Wild Turkey 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
American White Pelican 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Virginia Rail 1
Sora 1
Common Gallinule 1
American Coot 1
Sandhill Crane 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 1
American Woodcock 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 1
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Barred Owl 1
Eastern Whip-poor-will 1
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Willow Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 1
Horned Lark 1
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 1
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 1
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Veery 1
Swainson’s Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 1
Cedar Waxwing 1
Ovenbird 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Hooded Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Cape May Warbler 1
Cerulean Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 1
Wilson’s Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 1
Lark Sparrow 1
Grasshopper Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Lincoln’s Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Summer Tanager 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
House Finch 1
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 1

[Todd HaggardModerator]

The Kids and I got 111 species on our NCO run. We loosely hit Irwin, Secor, Oaks, Howard and Magee.
Tell Terri they both were the Weakest Links on the Team….. Against Their Whip-poor-Wills 😉

[Chuck AndersonParticipant]

Did anyone do a report for the NCO? Who had the highest?

[Sam CorboParticipant]

Jim Witter & I ended up running a freestyle day. Initially we tallied up 157 at Packo’s but when I entered our list into excel after sleeping a few nights, our actual total was 167, which I think is the best we’ve ever done (we’ve somewhere between 15-20 over the years, though this was our first NCO in a few). Apparently we should have let Jim’s kids do the math for us instead. As always, a great time out the day of and the few days prior as an out of towner, and good catching up with you all! Brief (kinda) report:

Started Friday out East, picking up a few lingering ducks incl. RB Merg at Pipe Creek. We were also pretty pumped to check off Green Heron within 10 minutes (and wouldn’t get one the rest of the way). Snatched up Eurasian Collared Dove at the 269 petting zoo and Willet at Barnside just before losing light.

We were feeling pretty good at that point, though the windy night and eventually some rain dampened our spirits a bit. We finally got a distant King Rail at Mallard, but no Bitterns and not much else. On the plus side, despite having rangers check us/our cars out a couple of times at the E end of Maumee Bay, we managed to avoid questioning and additional delay. After snagging the UT Peregrine to put us at 60 species, we shut it down for a brief nap.

We got to Oak Openings around 4 AM, driving through steady rain most of the way there. We managed a few short breaks in the rain, enough to call in a Barred Owl and eventually a brief, single burst from a Whip-poor-will. Just at the start of light, a Wilson’s Snipe at the airport was a nice get, shortly afterwards it began to rain, continuing through most of the dawn chorus. We ended up having a pretty solid migrant morning, highlighted by an Olive-sided Flycatcher in TA (thanks to Quick 3 Beers & a Cab for the heads up!), multiple Canada & Mourning Warblers among others. The “specialties” were a bit a struggle, dipping on Louisiana Waterthrush, Chat, RB Nuthatch, Creeper, and Turkey, all of which we’d had the few days prior- we couldn’t even manage a Hooded Warbler. Blue Grosbeak and WE Vireo, which had been calling rather incessantly all week eventually called after a bit of a wait. We swung through Secor and filled some of our OO misses (Hood Warb, RS Hawk), but YT Warbler (calling this week @ Schwamberger & Dorr as well as the Irwin Prairie parking lot) stayed quiet.

We spent the rest of the day out east. Howard was pretty spectacular, highlighted by the very vocal but also visible King Rail as well as YH Blackbird & BN Stilts. We also had a Peregrine make a few attempts at the murmurating Dunlin which spooked our solitary Solitary Sandpiper out of the weeds. A Wilson’s Phalarope joined the Willets and BB Plovers at Barnside Creamery. Magee helped us fill out some migrants as well as the continuing Common Goldeneye.

We ended up having a lot of late luck- we swung by Howard around 8:15 to see if anything had joined the Dunlin. Nothing had, but a Merlin made a quick pass working its way east, and then as we were pulling out of the entrance, a Kestrel was hovering over the dike on the west end. A quick stop at Seaman Rd (completely empty at 2PM) was quite fruitful, with 8 shorebird species including 3 additions to our list.

All in all, turned out to be a great day despite our morning “struggles”, buoyed by better shorebird and duck diversity than we normally are able to manage. We finished with 24 warblers, 13 ducks, 16 shorebirds (incl. woodcock, snipe), and 0 kingfishers.

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