Kent Miller offered the important highlights below.
Jackie and I arrived at The Wilderness Center, Stark County, at about 10:15
AM. A flock, about 550 Common Grackles passed overhead at treetop level as
we parked. Another 2500 to 3000 blackbirds, mostly grackles we think, passed
in a long stream over the distant east horizon, too far for positive
identifications. Twenty-one Brown-headed Cowbirds, a few Common Grackles,
and a solo Rusty Blackbird stayed behind to visit the feeding station.
Jackie and I joined a photographer set up at the corner of the closed nature
center to view the feeding stations. Two Eastern Towhees sporting a little
extra white in their wings arrived right away.
Cherry-cheeked bike riders were next to arrive: James Yoder and associate
(regret we didn't get his name, he found the Fox Sparrow) rode their
bicycles 22 miles to include the Spotted Towhee in their Bicycle Big Year in
the Boblink Area. It was 27F there when they arrived. A single Field
Sparrow, five or six White-crowned Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, Blue
Jays-one imitating a Cooper's Hawk, Carolina Wren, few Am. Goldfinches,
Hairy, Downy, Pileated and Red-bellied Woodpeckers came in. We heard at
least one Black-capped Chickadee call among Carolina Chickadees. James noted
hybrid characteristics on the black-capped. Titmice, juncos, Am. Tree
Sparrows, House Sparrows, House Finch, and more. Our friend TNC volunteer
days, The Wilderness Center's Gary Popotnik, Land Stewardship Director,
filled the feeders at about Noon and a rush of birds came in afterward, just
after he invited us in from the cold.
The Spotted Towhee arrived with the rush to new seed at about 12:10 PM, and
again at about 12:50 as Kent reported below. We left then to chase a raven
and found a group waiting outside the locked front door, and let them in.
Tom & Jackie Bain
Delaware County
-----Original Message-----
From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of kent
miller
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [Ohio-birds] spotted towhee remains Sunday 1/22
Didn't see any posts regarding the Spotted Towhee at the Wilderness Center
in
Wilmot, OH from today. It appears the warming weather slowed down it's
frequency
at the feeder. It was seen, I believe, at 12:10 & 12:50 this afternoon and
then
was not seen again until 4:20PM when it came in and put on a good show for
maybe
10 minutes before leaving again.
Also present at the same feeders are a Fox Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Eastern
Towhee, and a reported Field Sparrow.
Kent Miller
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