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Publication TYPE: Ohio-birds listserv posting
Date: 29 October 2004
Subject: soggy Sandusky Bay 29 Oct.

Sandusky Bay 29 October

I could have sworn that the late night forecast was for TRACE amounts of rainfall along the North Coast today. After passing through downpours on the way out, and experiencing a couple of lovely thunderstorms in the Bay area, I think I need to redefine my sense of TRACE amount. Dodging the rain, I managed the following observations.

  
Medusa Marsh - 9:30 to 10:00 am

Great Egret - 39
Mute Swan - 32
Gadwall - 280+
Mallard - 1850+
American Black Duck - 150+
Northern Shoveler - 40+
Northern Pintail - 28
American Wigeon - 230+
Green-winged Teal - 130+
Hooded Merganser - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 10
Dunlin - 23
Forster's Tern - 18

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Bay View - 10:10 am

Double-crested Cormorant - 700+

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East Harbor State Park - 10:20 - 10:50

Mute Swan - 24
puddle duck spp. - 600 
Forster's Tern - 75
Common Tern - 85
Caspian Tern - 4

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Port Clinton - 11:20

Canada Goose - 215
Mallard - 600

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Huron pier - 12:15

no mudflats - no birds

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crossing the Huron River at Rt. 2 at least 80 Dunlin could be seen

cheers

Vic Fazio
Shaker Hts, OH