Before anyone sends me email saying: "What were you thinking!!!" And
Thank you Ben.

On the list for Lawrence Woods, change 26. Nashville Warbler to...26.
Connecticut Warbler!!! (SOD#5)

(for those in Kenton area that want to chase it, take the right split
after you go around the pond just before it heads away from the fields
back there)

This is why I don't bird for an entire day...get tired...I do not take a
field guide with me due to it's inability to fit in my jeans pocket, so
I had taken it's picture and noted "one of the state birds" on my list
telling me that it's one of the geography birds (Nashville, Connecticut,
Tennessee, etc) , then continued on with the day and checked when I got
home...and completely missed the gray throat...sorry my fault. :-D  I am
in the middle of changing everything as I finish this letter, and byt
the time you get it, I will have them all fixed.

Happy Birding...and where is that Nashville!

Steve


On 5/21/2011 12:58 AM, Steve wrote:
> Well, I got a required day off, so I took FULL advantage of.  I decided
> to make a day of it, and do something completely different for me...stay
> near the house and see how many individual species I could get...my own
> big day!  So I limited myself to a somewhat circle of Lawrence Woods on
> the West. Killdeer to the North, and Big Island to the East.  The only
> feeder would me mine, My goal was at first 50 birds seen and heard, but
> changed it to 70 birds after Lawrence Woods ;-D, and It would end at
> sundown!  How many did I get...lets find out.
>
> 9:00-9:15 My house, list is small...but I wanted to get out of here! :
> 1. House Sparrow
> 2. House Finch
> 3. Pine Siskin....still!
>
>
> 9:30-arrival at Lawrence Woods, and it was the biggest chunk of the
> day...I deliberately took almost all day here to completely scour and
> had the most time because for one, nearly everything would be there, and
> for another...I wanted to get a "knock it off my list picture" of a Blue
> Winged Warbler...and the Elusive Nashville (I did ;-D link later)
>
> Here goes the list near to the order of seen/heard:
>
> 1. Meadowlark
> 2. Bobolink
> 3. Red Winged Black Bird
> 4.  (First Surprise Of The Day for me [SOD]) Female N. HARRIER
> 5. Grasshopper Sparrow
> 6. Song Sparrow
> 7. Field Sparrow
> 8. Hermit Thrush
> 9. Red Bellied Woodpecker
> 10. American Redstart
> 11. Canada Warbler
> 12. Black Throated Blue Warbler
> 13. Ovenbird
> 14. Pewee
> 15. Ruby Throated Hummingbird
> 16. Great Crested Flycatcher
> 17. Warbling Vireo
> 18. Baltimore Oriole
> 19. Scarlet Tanager
> 20. Blue Winged Warbler
> 21. Indigo Bunting
> 22. Common Yellow-throat
> 23. Cerulean Warbler
> 24. Nuthatch
> 25. Blue Grossbeak (2nd SOD)
> 26. Nashville Warbler
> 27. Yellow Warbler
> 28. Black Throated Green
> 29. Cardinal
> 30. Canada Goose
> 31. Wood Thrush
> 32. Blue Grey Gnatcatcher
> 33. Red Eyed Vireo
> 34. Philadelphia Vireo
> 35. Robin
> 36. Parula
> 37. White Throated Sparrow
> 38. Eastern Towhee
> 39. Pileated Woodpecker
> 40. Downy Woodpecker
> 41. Blue Jay
> 42. Turkey Vulture
> 43. Bluebird
> 44. Goldfinch
> 45. Indigo Bunting
> 46. House Wren
> 47. Catbird
>
> Next was Killdeer Plains. I got there after 3:30 This was drive by
> birding at it's best.  I went here to get the water birds, and Red
> Headed WP and anything else that pops up.  I am omitting everything that
> was at Lawrence Woods (8 total)
>
> 1. Killdeer
> 2. Eagle
> 3. Am. Kestrel
> 4.  Mockingbird
> 5. Eastern Kingbird (lots of these, almost every place I stopped)
> 6. Tree Swallow
> 7. Great Egret
> 8. Great Blue Heron
> ...no Stilt...darn!
> 9. Willow Flycatcher
> 10. Trumpeter Swans
> 11. Hooded Merganser
> 12. Cowbird
> 13. Brown Thrasher
> 14. N. Flickers
> 15. Barn Swallows
> 16. Mourning Dove
> 17. Rock Pigeon
> 18. Grackle
> 19. Starling
> 20. Red Headed Woodpecker
> 21. Swamp Sparrow
> 22. Red Tailed Hawk
> 23. Mallard
> 24. Coot
>
> I checked the list and saw that I was there or close to there,  but I
> wanted to take it over the top, and blow it away...just in case I
> miscounted ;-D.  So I kept on going to Big Island...It was now 8:30...so
> I hurried over to Big Island to the Deck on 95 and then to the end of
> the old ponds near the barn. As I had little light left I new I had to
> get what I could and go. So in the little bit of time I had it turned
> into full bore listening and as much as I could see with the binocs.
> Again, duplicates have been removed.  I had 2 SODs here.:
> I tried for Sora...no dice.
>
> 1. Flyby Pintail Duck at the Deck(3rd SOD...aren't they supposed to be
> gone?)
> 2. Pied Billed Grebe
> 3. Prothonotary Warbler
> 4. Common Moorhen
> And @ 9:30 as the sun sets over Big Island, I start to head back to the
> car to hear the call of the tiny but mighty:
> 5. Marsh Wren (4th SOD...I would have not even known what it was if it
> weren't for the BWIAB and the Ottawa Drive Through Day :-D)
>
> Total for the day: 79, Yipee I beat my goal!!!  Birds missing were the
> Wood Duck which was reported to me but I didn't see nor hear, Blue
> Winged Teal...I should have gone over to Herr Rd. and Shorebirds I could
> have gotten into the mid 80s if I had some of those.  But am I gonna
> complain...nope! :-D  Other birds mainly what sounded like flycatchers
> were heard but not positively IDed, so they were not included as well.
>
> Pics of the few that I actually took, are posted on my smug page:
> http://sjlarue.smugmug.com/Unsorted/OhioBirds/16108559_K6usy
>
> Have a great Weekend :-D
>
> Steve J.
>
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