Thursday, April 18, 2002

Rossford IVP 4-16-2 7:00 A.M.; clear; around 60 degrees; calm winds. I saw and heard white-throated sparrows throughout the park, but they were not present in overwhelming numbers. I heard a house wren. I saw at least four yellow-bellied sapsuckers. The others included: eastern phoebe, ruby-crowned kinglet (1), yellow-rumped warbler (1), great blue heron, blue-winged teal (10), and an immature bald eagle perched in a tree along Grassy Creek. I watch it fly out of the tree and toward the Maumee. It flew at about my eye level so I got a good view. I did not see or hear any juncos nor golden-crowned kinglets.