So with the rain setting in I picked up Prettybird to do a little birding before the woodcock hunt. A post on Ohiobirds pointed us to Wayne County where a flooded field apparently held some goodies. We arrived to find a couple of others birders searching the water in the rain. We set up scopes and looked over the area. There was an amazing amount of diversity in that flooded field. 15 species of ducks, coots, American Pipits, Wilson's Snipe and lot of Killdeer. I finally found the bird we were looking for in the taller grasses: Eurasian Wigeon. This bird has eluded me for years now on failed attempts and one-day-to-late chases. Even though the weather was awful, we soaked it in, litterally and enjoyed this bird.
As it was almost dark, we pulled into Prettybirds drive we heard my first Woodcocks of the year. We watched one fly a few feet in front of us and then two more doing their skydance. It was a great ending to a great and unexpected day adding two new year birds and three new Ohio birds for the year.
Year: 268
Ohio: 132
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