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| From: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 16 Oct 2006 15:27:14 EDT629_US-ASCII Today I followed-up with the trash clean-up project from Saturday at Hoover Reservoir. I went back into Areas M & N which weren't covered Saturday. I got to combine birding with the clean-up. Shorebirds were somewhat slow this afternoon. On the mudflats and sand spits between Area N and the boardwalk at Area M there were 9 Greater Yellowlegs, 10 Dunlin, 3 Semipalmated Plovers and many Killdeer but nothing else. There were several Common Terns skirting about, 23 Great Blue Herons clustered about, Double-crested Cormorants on a far sand spit and an adult Bald Eagle perched off Wiese Road. [...]42_16Oct200615:27: [log in to unmask] |
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| Date: | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:17:40 -0400 |
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With the House Wrens & Tree Swallows moved on and no Eastern Bluebirds
around this year, I have wondered who, over the past couple of weeks,
has left the downy feathers stuck on the rough-edged opening of this
year's new bluebird box.
A little while ago on the regular evening stroll around the pond with my
dog, something appeared odd about that opening in the rapidly
diminishing daylight. Without binocs and about 3 feet away, I finally
made out the stock-still head of a Downy Woodpecker as it peered out at
me from its claimed roost. Guess they really were Downy feathers!
This is the same box on which a Sweetheart Underwing moth was resting on
September 24, its tree bark camouflage failing against the blonde wood.
Kathy Mock
Norton, OH
Summit Co.
"Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the
migration of birds." - Brooks Atkinson
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